Daniel Craig Quotations

I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

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!

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.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

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.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

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.'

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

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.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

I don't care what other people are doing.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

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.

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

My first thought was I need a drink.

I'd like to thank the Royal Marines for bringing me in like that and scaring the s--- out of me,

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

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

I don't care about how much other actors get.

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.

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.

I think there's a complexity to it, but I think audiences are completely up for that.

It is a huge iconic figure in movie history, and those things don't come along very often,

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

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

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work. The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

I'd hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That's not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.

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

Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

I try not the count chickens, and I really do because there's no point because you go crazy. I'm very happy with the way this is working out. If they do another movie I'd love to do, and we'll fit in it.

It doesn't matter if you look a million dollars but everybody has their flaws. So that's why it had to be that way. He was living the life, he would stay out for three days probably, get drunk and do whatever he was doing and then hit the gym for two days. But that's the craziness of that lifestyle - you're damaging yourselves in more ways than one.

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?'

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

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

Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here... because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End.

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

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.

I'm a really bad liar.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

I'm not averse to earning someone; in fact I'd love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don't tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn't mean I don't want to earn shitloads of cash.

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'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

I always wanted to make movies.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I don't see the world in sexual divisions.

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.

It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character

I don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness.

I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

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.

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

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.

I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past, then threw all that away once I started doing the role.

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.

Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

I never really had a strong accent.

I love that my friends are all freaks.