It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It feels like a dream come true, being a Bond girl. I feel like a princess. It's hard to believe it when I say, 'I'm a Bond girl.'
I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.
There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.
A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you.
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.
I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like about me. They can reach out and touch me. I wouldn't give it up for anything.