Daniel Craig Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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

Anybody can leap off a building. — Daniel Craig

I had to have shoulder reconstruction. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy. — Daniel Craig

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

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.' — Daniel Craig

I have to be myself. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it. — Daniel Craig

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

I don't see the world in sexual divisions. — Daniel Craig

I can't go to war with paparazzi. — Daniel Craig

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

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

It's not the job of an actor to judge your character — Daniel Craig

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! — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life. — Daniel Craig

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

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here ... because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End. — Daniel Craig

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! — Daniel Craig

I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out. — Daniel Craig

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

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

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

The bad reviews get to me, believe me. — Daniel Craig

A secret is a secret in my mind. — Daniel Craig

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

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

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.' — Daniel Craig

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

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find. — Daniel Craig

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

I'm quite good at leaning against a bar. — Daniel Craig

My family and friends treat me as they always have. — Daniel Craig

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

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel. — Daniel Craig

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?' — Daniel Craig

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you. — Daniel Craig

I never really had a strong accent. — 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. — Daniel Craig

There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

There's a conscious decision to everything I do. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish. — Daniel Craig

It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing ... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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

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. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig

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

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else. — Daniel Craig

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. — Daniel Craig