Daniel Craig Quotes

I love that my friends are all freaks.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

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

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

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

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

I’ve always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 have to be myself.

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

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

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I know it’s surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven’t seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

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

I take my work seriously.

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

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.

Anybody can leap off a building.

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.

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

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

I’ve done a lot of things in my life.

Revenge doesn’t stop.

I’ve been very lucky.

I take stuff because I’m inspired by it.

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.

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

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

Good scripts are hard to find.

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