Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen – I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

I enjoy tennis, though don’t play very often nowadays, and skiing… oh yes and swimming.

I’m sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

Whenever I’m asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

It’s easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

I speak relatively little, except when I’m at home and I’m asking for things.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

I don’t like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.