There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.