Citations

The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often, it's something special and it's what makes stars. It's luck and basically it's genes.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm really glad that I was famous and successful at the time I was because it was bad enough then in a profession which tended to eat you up and never give you any free time. But I think that the youngsters today have a really bad time from every angle.

[1999, interview in Starlog magazine] A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

[on Paul Rabiger, her makeup artist on Goldfinger (1964)] He was as impersonal about gilding me as if he was painting a barn.

[nude scenes] I would never have done nude work. Although I look nude in Goldfinger I was covered in gold paint. So I wasn't nude, was I?

[her sexuality] How can I put it? My fan letters say that I have a vitality that they find sexy. Not the sultry, "boobs-hanging-out" sexy. I'm not and never have been that type of sexy.

[Sean Connery] Sean's lovely. Just what everyone writes about him, really. A very interesting person and very attractive. He's very much a "man's man." And a terrific actor.