“On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the ori...”

“My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.”

“Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.”

“There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing...”

“It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.”

“There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.”

“If quick, I survive.If not quick, I am lost.This is "death.”

“Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.”

“A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.”

“Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.”

“The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.”

“And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible h...”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”