I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

For me, acting is doing.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.

I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'

I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

I always wanted to do a Western.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.

I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven't done it since.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

I have no desire to look at myself.

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.