Daniel Craig Quotes

“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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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 don't care what other people are doing.

— Daniel Craig

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

— 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 take my work seriously.

— 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

“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

“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

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

— Daniel Craig

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

— 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

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

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

“A secret is a secret in my mind.”

— Daniel Craig

“I don't care about how much other actors get.”

— Daniel Craig

“I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— 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 had to have shoulder reconstruction.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

“Anybody can leap off a building.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

“I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.”

— 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

“I've done a lot of things in my life.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

“The bad reviews get to me, believe me.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

“I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.”

— Daniel Craig

“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.”

— 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

“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.”

— 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.”

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“I don't see the world in sexual divisions.”

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“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

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

— Daniel Craig

“The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.”

— Daniel Craig

It doesn't matter if you look a million dollars but everybody has their flaws. So that's why it had to be that way. He was living the life, he would stay out for three days probably, get drunk and do whatever he was doing and then hit the gym for two days. But that's the craziness of that lifestyle - you're damaging yourselves in more ways than one.

— Daniel Craig

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

— Daniel Craig