Daniel Craig Quotations | Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

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!

I'm a really bad liar.

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.

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

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

Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here... because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End.

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

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

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.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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.

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?'

It doesn't matter if you look a million dollars but everybody has their flaws. So that's why it had to be that way. He was living the life, he would stay out for three days probably, get drunk and do whatever he was doing and then hit the gym for two days. But that's the craziness of that lifestyle - you're damaging yourselves in more ways than one.

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.

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.

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

Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.

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.

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

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

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.

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.

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

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.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

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

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

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

Together with Martin, I want to make the best film we can, the most entertaining film we can.

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

There's more than one way to sense violence.

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

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

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

It was difficult, but I tried to think about it like any other job. We have got an incredible script, and that is my first line of attack. Once I had read it, I knew I did not have any choice. It is a huge iconic figure in movie history, and those things don't come along very often.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility, ... is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

I've just got to step up to the plate and deal with it, ... Together with Martin, I just want to make the best film I can. It's not a question of redefining, but taking it somewhere it's never gone before.

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

I'm not shy and Bond wouldn't be shy about it either.

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

I had a couple of martinis when I found out.

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.

I know ... Broccoli, I've known her for years.

But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice.

He's an assassin. (Bond) has to prove that he can do it, so if he doesn't manage it or do it properly, then he doesn't get his 00 credits and he'd have to go back to being a commander in the navy.

The important thing about Bond is that we have action sequences that excite the audience. It takes a lot of work. It's got to be of a very high standard. The best, in fact. The energy of it is about making it as exciting to watch as possible.

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.