Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
— Daniel Craig
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.
I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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.
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 never really had a strong accent.
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.
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.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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 take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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.'
Good scripts are hard to find.
I've done a lot of things in my life.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
I don't care about how much other actors get.
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
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 potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
Anybody can leap off a building.
I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
There's more than one way to sense violence.
I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
My family and friends treat me as they always have.
I don't care what other people are doing.
I have to be myself.
I love that my friends are all freaks.
I always wanted to make movies.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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.
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
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.
Revenge doesn't stop.
I've been very lucky.
I take my work seriously.
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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.
