Daniel Craig Quotes (34 Quotes)

There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

I understand that doing this movie doesn't help ... We'll take it one day at a time.

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

I dropped what I was carrying. I went straight to the alcohol section and got myself a bottle of vodka, a bottle of vermouth and went back and made myself a Martini... or two.

Together with Martin, I want to make the best film we can, the most entertaining film we can.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

It was difficult, but I tried to think about it like any other job. We have got an incredible script, and that is my first line of attack. Once I had read it, I knew I did not have any choice. It is a huge iconic figure in movie history, and those things don't come along very often.

It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.

Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o'clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can't be much fun.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.

The important thing about Bond is that we have action sequences that excite the audience. It takes a lot of work. It's got to be of a very high standard. The best, in fact. The energy of it is about making it as exciting to watch as possible.

I know ... Broccoli, I've known her for years.

there is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors whose names have not leaked to the press who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice.

He doesn't look the part. In interviews and his movies he has never sounded or acted the part, and he looks like a dentist. But other than that, he really seems like he'll make a good Bond.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

My first thought was I need a drink.

I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other,

I've just got to step up to the plate and deal with it, ... Together with Martin, I just want to make the best film I can. It's not a question of redefining, but taking it somewhere it's never gone before.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

I had a confidence about it. That's because of the people around me, and I felt good about it. But I knew positively on Monday. I was in the US city of Baltimore and I got the phone call.

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.

I am looking most forward to actually starting getting on with it, and feeling intimidated about pretty much everything. It is a sort of responsibility, but it is also a huge adventure.