Daniel Craig Quotes & Sayings

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

#2. I'm a really bad liar.

#3. 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.

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#4. I've done a lot of things in my life.

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#5. Anybody can leap off a building.

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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

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

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#13. I love that my friends are all freaks.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.

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#17. 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.

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#18. The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

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

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#20. So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

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#21. My family and friends treat me as they always have.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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

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

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#26. 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.

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

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

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#29. Good scripts are hard to find.

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#30. 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.

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

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#32. I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

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

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

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#35. I have to be myself.

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#36. There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

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

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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#41. I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

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#42. 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.

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#43. I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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#44. The last thing on earth I wanted was to make a Bond movie.

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#45. 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.

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#46. 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.

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#47. 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.

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

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#49. You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

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#50. I take my work seriously.

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#51. I don't care what other people are doing.

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#52. I never had any boyhood ambitions.

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#53. I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

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#54. 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.

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#55. I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

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

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#57. There are things about guys who are in the army. They're very particular, they have to be.

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#58. 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.

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#59. 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.

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#60. 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.

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

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#62. 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.

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

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

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#65. As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration.

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#66. I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.

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

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#68. I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

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#69. It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

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#70. 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.

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#71. 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!

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

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#73. The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it.

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#74. Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

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

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#76. It's not the job of an actor to judge your character

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

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

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#79. I never really had a strong accent.

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#80. There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.

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#81. 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.

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#82. 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.'

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

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

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

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

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#87. 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.

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

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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?'

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#91. 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.

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#92. I don't see the world in sexual divisions.

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#93. Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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