Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Craig - Page 2

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

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

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

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.

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.

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

Good scripts are hard to find.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

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.

Anybody can leap off a building.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I love that my friends are all freaks.

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

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.

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

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

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.

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

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.

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 never had any boyhood ambitions.

Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

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

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.

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.

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

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 like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

There are things about guys who are in the army. They're very particular, they have to be.

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

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.

I don't see the world in sexual divisions.

I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play.

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.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

The last thing on earth I wanted was to make a Bond movie.

I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.

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.

It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy, because it sells movies on 'behind the scenes' footage. It's seeing the secrets of how the movies are made, and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plots a secret.

If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.

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.

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.

I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.

I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.