Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Craig

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

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

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

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

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I've been very lucky.

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

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

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?'

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.

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.

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.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

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

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

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

I don't care what other people are doing.

Revenge doesn't stop.

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

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

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.

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

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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

I always wanted to make movies.

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.'

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

I never really had a strong accent.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

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

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.

I got through college.

I take my work seriously.

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.

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

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

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.

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

There's more than one way to sense violence.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

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.

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

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

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.

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

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

I'm a really bad liar.

Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.

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.