Daniel Craig quotes
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“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.'”
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“I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.”
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“I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.”
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“You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.”
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“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.”
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“I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.”
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“When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.”
-- Daniel CraigSource : "From Bond To Blomkvist: Daniel Craig's Next Big Role". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 20, 2011.
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“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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“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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“I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.”
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“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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“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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“As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.”
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“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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“You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.”
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“Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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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“There's a conscious decision to everything I do.”
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“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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“I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.”
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“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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“Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.”
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“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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“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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“There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.”
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“I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.”
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“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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“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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“I don't see the world in sexual divisions.”
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“I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.”
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“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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“He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.”
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“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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“I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.”
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“I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.”
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“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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“I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”
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“I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.”
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“I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.”
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“Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.”
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“In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.”
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“Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.”
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“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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“I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.”
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“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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“There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.”
-- Daniel CraigSource : Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.
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“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 CraigSource : "James Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine side" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.
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“Things need shaking up politically, culturally.”
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“You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.”
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“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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“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.”
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“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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“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.”
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“It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.”
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“So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.”
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“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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“The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.”
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