I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.