Daniel Craig quotes

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

#Birthday #Regret #Ideas

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

#Funny #Thinking #Easy

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
-- Daniel Craig

#Believe #Want #Film

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
-- Daniel Craig

#Rejection #Used

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

#Inspirational #Thinking #People

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

#Desire #Lines

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
-- Daniel Craig

#Reading #Important #Wonderful

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

#Mother #Real #Cooking

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

#Business #Trying #Suits

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
-- Daniel Craig

#Class #Bars

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

#Business #Real #Struggle

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

#London #Moved

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

#Kids #Today #Kind

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

#Crazy #Hero #People

Revenge doesn't stop.
-- Daniel Craig

#Revenge

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

#Needs #Problem #Impress

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

#Voice #Everyday #Fantasy

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

#Zoos #Trying #Want

A secret is a secret in my mind.
-- Daniel Craig

#Secret #Mind

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

#Thank You #Thanksgiving #Sexy

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

#Sex #Nice #Mean

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
-- Daniel Craig

#Decision #Conscious

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

#Want #Situation #Clear

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
-- Daniel Craig

#Physiotherapy #Gym

I'm a really bad liar.
-- Daniel Craig

#Liars

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

#Guy #Littles #Moral

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
-- Daniel Craig

#Worst #Bond Movie

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

#Ridiculous #Fit #Enough

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

#Careers #Satisfied

Anybody can leap off a building.
-- Daniel Craig

#Building #Leap

There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.
-- Daniel Craig

#Thinking #Quality #Kind

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.
-- Daniel Craig

#Thinking #Answers #Findings

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.
-- Daniel Craig

#Morning #Fun #Garden

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 don't see the world in sexual divisions.
-- Daniel Craig

#Division #World

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
-- Daniel Craig

#Thinking #Film #Collectives

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
-- Daniel Craig

#Way

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
-- Daniel Craig

#Empowering #Doe #Ability

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

#Sexy #Thinking #Games

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
-- Daniel Craig

#Privacy #Protect

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
-- Daniel Craig

#People #Awkward #Want

I never really had a strong accent.
-- Daniel Craig

#Strong #Accents

I love that my friends are all freaks.
-- Daniel Craig

#Freak

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

#Stuff

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
-- Daniel Craig

#Cowboy #Play #Long

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
-- Daniel Craig

#Dark #Roles #Sides

I can't go to war with paparazzi.
-- Daniel Craig

#War #Paparazzi

Good scripts are hard to find.
-- Daniel Craig

#Scripts

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
-- Daniel Craig

#Dresses #Shows #Showing Off

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

#Trust #Sick #Balance

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-- Daniel Craig

#Character #People #Different

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

#People #Dry #Scene

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.
-- Daniel Craig

#Character #Past #Three

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
-- Daniel Craig

#Long #Worry

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

#Fashion #Rocks #Dresses

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
-- Daniel Craig

#Toys #Bigger

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.
-- Daniel Craig

#Jobs #Men #Two

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
-- Daniel Craig

#Needs #Shaking

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
-- Daniel Craig

#Believe #Reviews #Believe In Me

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-- Daniel Craig

#Creating #People #Stealing

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

#Responsibility #Opportunity #Ties

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

#Sexy #Men #Clothes

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

#Thinking #Squad #Matter

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

#Passion #Heart #Names

It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
-- Daniel Craig

#Meat #Sandwiches #Bread

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.
-- Daniel Craig

#Profound #Asking #Answers

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

#Spy #Would Be #Want

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
-- Daniel Craig

#Looks #Thrillers #Worst