James Bond Quotes

“What I’ve done with the Bond music is to try to create a sense of palpable danger, a sense of adventure.”

“I always felt that the music for Bond should be kind of tongue-in-cheek.”

“Goldfinger was the first of the Bonds where we had enough money.”

“I don't say, 'Can I have a vodka martini, shaken not stirred?' But I wouldn't say no to one.”

“The Bond phenomenon would have been impossible without the literary figure in the first place. He’s a larger-than-life character.”

“Sean was the first and, to my mind, the best Bond.”

“I always thought the Bond films were science fiction. They’re not real.”

“I wanted to make Bond a human being. The character Ian Fleming created is a man, not a superman; he's a flawed hero.”

“The joy of that film was, for the first time, we had money. And we had a marvelous villain.”

“I was a Bond girl, and I don't regret it.”

“You have to have a certain kind of arrogance, a certain kind of balls, to play James Bond.”

“My interpretation was to try to be as close to the original books as possible. I went back to the books and read them. They're very good.”

“A Bond girl is a woman who is not a man's plaything.”

“I came in to read for Bond, and I was in my early twenties. I'd just left drama school. I was a kid.”

“Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.”

“Being a Bond girl is a wonderful experience, it's a franchise that never dies.”

“The great thing about Bond is that you know you have an audience. You know you've got a blockbuster and all you have to do is not screw it up.”

“The Bond franchise is not a problem for the actor, it's a problem for the director.”

“I'm the fourth best James Bond.”

“The thing about Bond is that he is the most rigid of all the franchises. He is a man of the '50s. He is a misogynist. He is a dinosaur.”