“I have no shortage of material or offers, it’s just a case of what you select to do. But I think it’s realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.”

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

It’s a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Some age, others mature.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn’t true.

All the Bond films had their good points.

I’m an easy target because of my political opinions.

I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.

I don’t think I’ll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.

How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.

It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.

If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.

It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.