Samantha Bond quote: "I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta."

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedd...
SAMANTHA BOND

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man w...
SAMANTHA BOND

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
SAMANTHA BOND

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
SAMANTHA BOND

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called ...
SAMANTHA BOND

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are ab...
SAMANTHA BOND

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved ...
SAMANTHA BOND

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
SAMANTHA BOND

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
SAMANTHA BOND

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason...
SAMANTHA BOND

It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing a...
SAMANTHA BOND

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this ...
SAMANTHA BOND

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first ...
SAMANTHA BOND

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative th...
SAMANTHA BOND

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing aro...
SAMANTHA BOND

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on...
SAMANTHA BOND

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.
SAMANTHA BOND

I always have bananas with me for energy.
SAMANTHA BOND

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.
SAMANTHA BOND

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next seri...
SAMANTHA BOND

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
SAMANTHA BOND

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been v...
SAMANTHA BOND

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50....
SAMANTHA BOND

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I...
SAMANTHA BOND

My best friend is my husband.
SAMANTHA BOND

As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Brid...
SAMANTHA BOND

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I ...
SAMANTHA BOND

In Paris people love and regret, kiss and be happy.
SAMANTHA

How does somebody know you love them if you keep it to yourself.
SAMANTHA

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, th...
JULIAN BOND

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to g...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo...
MICHAEL BOND

The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.
GWENDA BOND

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
ALAN BOND

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses...
EDWARD BOND

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and e...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a r...
KIT BOND

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolut...
JULIAN BOND

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American ...
KIT BOND

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a tech...
KIT BOND

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big ...
MICHAEL BOND

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of ...
MICHAEL BOND

The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the s...
GWENDA BOND

Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal att...
TRACEY BOND

It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure c...
KIT BOND

Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a perso...
MIKE BOND

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And w...
MIKE BOND

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
EDWARD BOND

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
EDWARD BOND

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
JULIAN BOND

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our Na...
KIT BOND

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time....
JULIAN BOND

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
RUSKIN BOND

...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darknes...
MIKE BOND

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the dea...
KIT BOND

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
KIT BOND

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer...
KIT BOND

Sir Richard Branson (CEO and Founder of Virgin Company) inspires me to build my best...and then cont...
TRACEY BOND

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives prote...
RUSKIN BOND

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
EDWARD BOND

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
EDWARD BOND

What we're doing is to rehabilitate these lands. There is no evidence that clear-cuts degrade waterc...
ED BOND

I became infatuated with them.
BRUCE BOND

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND

We don't know, which is why we have to investigate.
MONIQUE BOND

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent unt...
TOMMY BOND

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyan...
MIKE BOND

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us i...
RONNIE BOND

Stupidity is evil waiting to happen
CLAY BOND

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he&...
TOMMY BOND

The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank in...
MIKE BOND

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human a...
EDWARD BOND

We must love someone. We must keep loving, all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selve...
RUSKIN BOND

People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two senten...
RUSKIN BOND

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
EDWARD BOND

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those wh...
KIT BOND

Isn't Glen an accountant? We're all frugal." These days, by necessity.

"You might be fru...
STEPHANIE BOND

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in...
KIT BOND

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard an...
KIT BOND

Oh god, yes, everyone is going to think it's Bridget Jones climbs mountains.
ANNABELLE BOND

Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places...
MIKE BOND

I believe that beauty is something that can be felt, inasmuch as it can be seen, deep below sight's ...
TRACEY BOND

Life is worth living when God throws His Divine dice in your favor. HE has slow-stirred my life with...
TRACEY BOND

If we would think-to-speak at an adaptive, and comprehensible ear-speed of human sound, we might vas...
TRACEY BOND

Parochialism is one of the CIA's biggest problems. These career CIA officers, while having valuable ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

They shouldn't have let him go. Now they have to find a guy they can patch up to a seven-year cont...
JAMES BOND

terribly unfair and unfounded.
CHRISTOPHER BOND

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as ...
KIT BOND

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on direc...
TOMMY BOND

In some ways it reflects the realities of the 1950s: There were relatively few women in public leade...
JULIAN BOND

quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.
JULIAN BOND

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.
JULIAN BOND

It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were,
JULIAN BOND

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
JULIAN BOND

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
JULIAN BOND

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
JULIAN BOND

I don't think you'll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is a...
JULIAN BOND

More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked...
JULIAN BOND

There are a lot of decent folks who have been given a lot of misinformation.
ED BOND

Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short sto...
RUSKIN BOND

When the earth gave birth to this tree, There came no sound: A green shoot thrust In silence from th...
RUSKIN BOND

I have concluded that the current controversy has completely overshadowed our efforts to expand the ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

Many are attracted to social service-the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we h...
JULIAN BOND

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt t...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

We have escaped the storm, it looks like, but as far as the flights, once the flight's canceled, it'...
MONIQUE BOND

The prospects for a small ETF group weren't great based on that experience.
BRUCE BOND

We took a big risk that investors would see the value of our approach and participate.
BRUCE BOND

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the gr...
KIT BOND

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
RUSKIN BOND

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships
RUSKIN BOND

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
RUSKIN BOND

It's a toxic world out there folks, use caution when connecting online & offline. There's a dark...
TRACEY BOND

Soberly teach the enlightened souls the reality that they will be rejected by the massively ignorant...
TRACEY BOND

PR (public relations) Leadership is the art of giving those leaders a mediaphilic (tm) and newsworth...
TRACEY BOND

Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the...
MIKE BOND

We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes...
GWENDA BOND

Money should serve the human spirit...not the other way around....Make A $ (YOU-Turn) 2-Day (today)!
TRACEY BOND

To any soul born of God, fortune is a default birthright...transact with a higher algorithm for pros...
TRACEY BOND

Missing the call that your positive dreams send you like a gift in a multimedia message download to ...
TRACEY BOND

You know that you're not too removed from high school, and you know that today in the high school th...
BILL BOND

Everyday in the United States, around 160,000 kids stay at home from school because of things that w...
BILL BOND

Baseball at one time, long before TV, it was such a fabric of the country. More so than football and...
BILL BOND

From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea...
MICHAEL BOND

Online & social media subscribers are hungry for content, but when newsfeeding them for growth, ...
TRACEY BOND

Ohhh what precious life energy and safety one will spend and risk for a lifeless precious metal that...
TRACEY BOND

To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics.
RICH BOND

The Saudis are exporting anti-American, extremist teachings directly into our country. It is a destr...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

What's in a #firstlady title? The rest of their #bickeringbook, and look who's reading each other in...
TRACEY BOND

Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; ...
JULIAN BOND

Memoirs of a Geisha.
JAMES BOND

Parochialism, poor information architectures, and bureaucratic confusion should not be included amon...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

She developed the King Center in Atlanta, and she made it possible for his message, particularly his...
JULIAN BOND

[At normally hectic Chicago-O'Hare International Airport,] things are going very slow, ... be prepar...
MONIQUE BOND

No, no, it's just scheduling. It's just the location, where they can get the trainer available, wher...
MONIQUE BOND

I lived on a #Parkavenue for 8 years…it didn't even cost me $23.8million; determining the value of...
TRACEY BOND

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond...
MIKE BOND

I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.
GWENDA BOND

For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, s...
GWENDA BOND

One's attitude affects altitude, and the degree of our mental elevation gives measurable evidence of...
TRACEY BOND

Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignora...
TRACEY BOND

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
EDWARD BOND

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washingto...
JULIAN BOND

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and h...
MICHAEL BOND

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonder...
JULIAN BOND

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But viol...
EDWARD BOND

A moment of peace and silence, breathing in and out the frigid air, watching daylight seep into the ...
MIKE BOND

I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had c...
GWENDA BOND

Supper won't be long.
JAMES BOND

She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, ... She is one person who sp...
JULIAN BOND

For my happy relationships...they are truly formulated in a deeply intimate, trust-BUILT, character-...
TRACEY BOND

It is more than passing strange that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle would bring out J...
KIT BOND

The lesson is always there for the duration of our lives, and it is the student who must learn its o...
TRACEY BOND

What hand is holding the voting "trump card" that sold the peoples' souls? It starts with a knowledg...
TRACEY BOND

LIVE like someone, somewhere is always monitoring your existence, 'because they are - some wise who ...
TRACEY BOND

He felt Bond should be hard and fatalistic, and make no attempt to endear himself to the audience, w...
JAMES BOND

Ideal humane leadership begins with a real demonstration of love, continues relating with acceptance...
TRACEY BOND

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in a...
JULIAN BOND

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not ari...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights ...
MIKE BOND

It can be proven that wounded people wound others. Walk circumspectly among wounded people, their in...
TRACEY BOND

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being...
EDWARD BOND

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
EDWARD BOND

Where lands would be compatible and appropriate, we'd certainly look at those. The program makes sen...
ED BOND

Even though we are incurring high trucking costs in taking those logs to Tuolumne County, we see thi...
ED BOND

We commend the forest for trying to do more. But at the same time I think everyone realizes a lot mo...
ED BOND

Sierra Pacific has been involved in the political process through many administrations for many year...
ED BOND

Both Sides with Jesse Jackson
JULIAN BOND

Having conducted a preliminary investigation, the shooting was justified.
MONIQUE BOND

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human b...
EDWARD BOND

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was ...
MICHAEL BOND

Higher LOVE has a mirror image...have you looked into it lately? When the wick of your soul is lit b...
TRACEY BOND

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging e...
JULIAN BOND

I would say that I would do the same thing with any other members of the rascals that are still aliv...
TOMMY BOND

One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert pla...
MIKE BOND

As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know...
RUSKIN BOND

Everyone says she’s mad.’
‘How do they know?’ I asked.
‘Because she’s differen...
RUSKIN BOND

It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me.
GWENDA BOND

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we c...
KIT BOND

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues...
KIT BOND

The World Is Not Enough
JAMES BOND

It looks good. We're coming in at about the same number. We're still lower [than 500].
MONIQUE BOND

If only our eyes were silver feathered wings, undoubtedly, we would lash-lift our shimmered lids to ...
TRACEY BOND

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.
GWENDA BOND

But we're definitely aware of it.
GWENDA BOND

There's no question that it would save money in the long term, but we just don't have the short-term...
GWENDA BOND

He has been told that this was inappropriate and it's not something that can happen. The cabinet doe...
GWENDA BOND

Ridiculed as "Knox the knave" and "a runagate Scot," he was outlawed and forbidden to preach by the ...
DOUGLAS BOND

Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.
GWENDA BOND

Harmony is everything, your central nervous system can bear witness to that in every area of your li...
TRACEY BOND

all new partners, no condoms, no birth control, no consequences at all.
JAMES BOND

This is a serious problem, although it's not as dramatic as sort of an epidemic,
JAMES BOND

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for,
JAMES BOND

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for, ... I don't know if this man is really takin...
JAMES BOND

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

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