I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it's been 99% luck.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

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

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.

I was considered chubby as a teen.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

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 would have loved to play a real baddie.

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

Selling your country's secrets is always wrong.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Craig, though they hadn't even met him at that point.

I loved my mother and father.