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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.