Daniel Craig Quotes

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

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.

I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.

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

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

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

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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

I'm a really bad liar.

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.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

I love that my friends are all freaks.

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

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.

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 like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

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

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.

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

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

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

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I don't see the world in sexual divisions.

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

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.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

I'm not averse to earning someone; in fact I'd love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don't tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn't mean I don't want to earn shitloads of cash.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work. 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.

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.

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

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy, because it sells movies on 'behind the scenes' footage. It's seeing the secrets of how the movies are made, and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plots a secret.

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

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.

I always wanted to make movies.

Philip is being very vocal about it. For me, I don't think the story isn't at all anti-religious in any way. I think what's it more against is the control and the misuse of power that any organised religion, or any political organisation exercises over the people they're supposed to represent. I think that, for me, is what's important in the movie.