Timothy Dalton Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The online environment is unique, and that's a very good thing. Rather than be judged by what they look like or their ability to speak in front of a crowd, people are judged by the merit of their ideas and words.

L. H. Cosway

#3. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

Oswald Chambers

#4. What you create for you, no one can take from you.

Jhene Aiko

#5. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

Timothy Dalton

#6. 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Timothy Dalton

#7. Here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.

Bill Gates

#8. It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

Timothy Dalton

#9. If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

Timothy Dalton

#10. If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

Timothy Dalton

#11. I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Timothy Dalton

#12. I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

Timothy Dalton

#13. I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

Timothy Dalton

#14. If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Timothy Dalton

#15. It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

Timothy Dalton

#16. One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Wallace Stevens

#17. If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?

Timothy Dalton

#18. Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Timothy Dalton

#19. Publicity is just a foolish act done by wise people confidently, to fool the world.

Pratik Akkawar

#20. I'm a lifelong stutterer.

Bill Walton

#21. Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

Timothy Dalton

#22. 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

#23. Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!

Timothy Dalton