Daniel Craig Quotes

It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past, then threw all that away once I started doing the role.

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

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.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

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

Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.

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

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

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

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

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

There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.

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.'

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

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

I'm a really bad liar.

I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.

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.

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

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.

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.

I never really had a strong accent.

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

A secret is a secret in my mind.

I don't see the world in sexual divisions.

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

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

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

Anybody can leap off a building.

If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

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

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

There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.