Quotes By Daniel Craig

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

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.

I have to be myself.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Anybody can leap off a building.

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!

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.

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

I never really had a strong accent.

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.

But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice.

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.

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

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.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

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.

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

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.

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

I got through college.

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

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

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