James Bond Life Quotes

#1. Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

Barbara Carrera

#2. You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path

Gautama Buddha

#3. If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

Antonio Banderas

#4. When had his life turned into a porn version of a James Bond movie?

Carla Swafford

#5. Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Ad Reinhardt

#6. On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words 'James Bond' again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it's the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.

Timothy Dalton

#7. I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

Allison Tolman

#8. You have to learn when to ignore suffering so that you're strong enough to fight it when the time is right.

Eliot Schrefer

#9. To Fleming, and to his readers, James Bond was a real person living in the modern world. The details of his life appear only sporadically in the books, but they proved vitally important in grounding him in his time, which made his extraordinary and often implausible adventures seem possible.

Henry Chancellor

#10. I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

Berenice Marlohe

#11. Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Francois Truffaut

#12. When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#13. I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.

Ian Fleming

#14. I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

James Marsden

#15. My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

Dan Stevens

#16. We have messed-up lives, but we're good people and we have grace. And even though we don't have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.

Lacey Mosley

#17. I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes.

Timothy Dalton

#18. I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#19. A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight.

James Patterson

#20. 'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.

Alex Lifeson

#21. My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

Toby Young

#22. When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims of genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.

Philip Gourevitch

#23. You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

Claude Lelouch

#24. James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

Ian Fleming

#25. John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Carter Burwell

#26. Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#27. My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

Robert Wagner

#28. You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

Goswami Kriyananda