I got through college.
— Daniel Craig
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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.
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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.
There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.
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!
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
I'm a really bad liar.
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've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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.
A secret is a secret in my mind.
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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.'
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.
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.
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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.
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
I can't go to war with paparazzi.
I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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.
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.
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've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
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?'
He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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.
