I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
Daniel Craig
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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.
You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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?'
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
I got through college.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
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.
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
I don't care about how much other actors get.
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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.
There's more than one way to sense violence.
I love that my friends are all freaks.
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 like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
I've done a lot of things in my life.
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.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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.
Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
I've been very lucky.
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
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.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
I have to be myself.
A secret is a secret in my mind.
I take my work seriously.
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.'
