Top 55 Daniel Craig Quotes

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

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

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

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.

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.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and ‘behind the scenes,’ and now it’s a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

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.

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

It’s not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it’s nice of course – but embarrassing.

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

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?’

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 have to be myself.

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

I don’t care what other people are doing.

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

I’m not trying to be macho, I promise you.

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!

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

I don’t say: ‘can’t do that’, ‘won‘t do that’. I’ve never thought in that way about work.

You’re creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

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.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

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

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!

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don’t blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

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.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

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

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don’t think it is. I think it’s something you choose.

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.’

There’s a conscious decision to everything I do.

I never really had a strong accent.

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

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.

Look, I’m in love. I’m very happy.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Revenge doesn’t stop.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

I take stuff because I’m inspired by it.

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

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

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.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

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