“Revenge doesn’t stop.”
― Daniel Craig
“Even the worst Bond movies, there’s something to love about them.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“There’s always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.”
― Daniel Craig
“You’ve got to live your life, you’ve got to enjoy it.”
― Daniel Craig
“Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don’t trust myself. I need that balance.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I don’t say: ‘can’t do that’, ‘won’t do that’. I’ve never thought in that way about work.”
― Daniel Craig
“Look, I’m in love. I’m very happy.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.’”
― Daniel Craig
“I’m definitely not satisfied about my career. I don’t know how you can be, it’s the very nature of things.”
― Daniel Craig
“As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve got to be high class… Which is sad, because I like bars.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.”
― Daniel Craig
“You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve always loved to dress up a bit and show off.”
― Daniel Craig
“It’s a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.”
― Daniel Craig
“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!”
― Daniel Craig
“He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.”
― Daniel Craig
“There’s no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.”
― Daniel Craig
“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?’”
― Daniel Craig
“I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he’s hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it’s just too many lines.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I have never played a role in which someone’s dark side shouldn’t be explored.”
― Daniel Craig
“There’s a conscious decision to everything I do.”
― Daniel Craig
“I think there’s a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.”
― Daniel Craig
“A secret is a secret in my mind.”
― Daniel Craig
“The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right.”
― Daniel Craig
“You’re creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.”
― Daniel Craig
“I can’t go to war with paparazzi.”
― Daniel Craig
“Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.”
― Daniel Craig
“I had to have shoulder reconstruction.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.”
― Daniel Craig
“I guess you could say I’ve been in my share of violent movies.”
― Daniel Craig
“In many films, as many different characters, I’ve killed many different people.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’m a really bad liar.”
― Daniel Craig
“I got through college.”
― Daniel Craig
“There’s more than one way to sense violence.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve done a lot of things in my life.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’m not trying to be macho, I promise you.”
― Daniel Craig
“Good scripts are hard to find.”
― Daniel Craig
“When you’re making movies you’ve got to get obsessive.”
― Daniel Craig
“The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.’”
― Daniel Craig
“I take my work seriously.”
― Daniel Craig
“The bad reviews get to me, believe me.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’ve been very lucky.”
― Daniel Craig
“I take stuff because I’m inspired by it.”
― Daniel Craig
“Anybody can leap off a building.”
― Daniel Craig
“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!”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“Things need shaking up politically, culturally.”
― Daniel Craig
“In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.”
― Daniel Craig
“I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can’t recreate.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.”
― Daniel Craig
“I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.”
― Daniel Craig
“I never really had a strong accent.”
― Daniel Craig
“I always wanted to make movies.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I love that my friends are all freaks.”
― Daniel Craig
“The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“I have to be myself.”
― Daniel Craig
“I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.”
― Daniel Craig
“You get used to the rejection and you don’t take it personally.”
― Daniel Craig
“I don’t care what other people are doing.”
― Daniel Craig
“I don’t care about how much other actors get.”
― Daniel Craig
“It’s not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it’s nice of course – but embarrassing.”
― Daniel Craig
“My family and friends treat me as they always have.”
― Daniel Craig
“I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn’t, I feel awkward with.”
― Daniel Craig
“I like going to the gym every day because I’m in physiotherapy every day.”
― Daniel Craig
“I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.”
― Daniel Craig
“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.”
― Daniel Craig
“When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It’s what makes reading such a wonderful thing.”
― Daniel Craig
“Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don’t blow out of proportion, is very liberating.”
― Daniel Craig
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