“There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.”

Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don’t ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don’t understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest.

More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it’s not something I’ve ever used and I don’t think I ever will.

There’s something fundamentally wrong with a system where there’s been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

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’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn’t refuse to do another movie.

I’m swimming every day and I’m even trying to get the golf swing working again – but that might take a little bit longer.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I’d rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

If I’m expected to keep your messages, and everybody else’s, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that’s all it is. Let me keep you safe.

You keep life on a short leash. Whats that supposed to mean? Youre scared of what you cant control.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.