When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

There is no good side to celebrity.

Life is not perfect.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

I believe in people.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

I don't like to talk about my personal life.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

Kids want you to take them to whatever kid movie is opening, and you just hope it's good because you're going to buy a ticket, no matter what. If it's no good, you kind of drape your arm over your kid so they don't get smashed, and you take a little nap.

I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.