Daniel Craig Quotes

A secret is a secret in my mind.

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

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration.

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.

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

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.

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

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

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.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

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.

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.

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.

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 stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

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!

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.

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

Revenge doesn't stop.

I try not the count chickens, and I really do because there's no point because you go crazy. I'm very happy with the way this is working out. If they do another movie I'd love to do, and we'll fit in it.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

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.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

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.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

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.

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.

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 don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness.

I never really had a strong accent.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

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

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

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

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.