I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

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

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

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

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  The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are a

• Samantha Bond:

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

• Samantha Bond:

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

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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 star

• Samantha Bond:

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

• Samantha Bond:

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

• Samantha Bond:

  My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' w