They feel they have to top themselves in a genre which is just spectacle and a huge bang for your buck. And it's a good idea to incorporate a little Bond into all your dealings. Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting.I've been in the backwaters of Papua New Guinea and heard, 'Hey, Bond.' Look, I'm thankful, the role made me an international star. He's smooth and bigger than life, but he's vague as a personality. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring. To my eye, women get sexier around 35.It's lovely to work out the fantasy of it all in celluloid and then go home to my wife.

Bond was supposed to be this great lover, but I always found the love scenes in those movies a little dull. I know most actors say otherwise, but I like sex scenes.There was only one Bond for me, and it was Sean Connery.And then I discovered Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen and the movies. One of the first films I saw was Goldfinger (1964) - I didn't want to be James Bond but the seed of cinema and pictures was sown there in Putney High Street. You have dreamed well.' Part of the dreams go back to my childhood and when I left Ireland in 1964, I discovered the cinema. there's that lovely line from that wonderful epic picture that I made called Grey Owl (1999) where they say to Archie Belaney, 'A man becomes what he dreams. The old man took to the hills and my mother never saw him again, and suddenly you are spoken about in the Sunday service in church, never directly but they would bring up the issue of being a single parent and of marriage falling apart. I can certainly relate it to my parents, especially my mother. And certainly in those dark days, in the '50s in Ireland, if you were a single parent living in that society, you were somewhat shamed and stigmatized.You have to invest yourself in every character that you portray. I think that all the films I've ever made are personal, even James Bond, because it's so much of myself, so much of who I am as a man and as an actor.

You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job. I had bread and butter to put on the table. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing.

Finally, I'm growing into this face of mine. In 1986 I think I was 33 or something like that, and I still looked like a baby. Bond is a man with the greatest of confidence.

It's a role better suited to someone who is in his 40s, old enough to have the confidence and the sophistication and strength to be able to stand there and just let the moment sit.

She's forever embedded in every fiber of my being.

Cassie has made me the man I am, the actor I am, the father I am.

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

Our marriage gives me a stability that makes me feel that I can tackle the world.

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