Alec Trevelyan Quotes in GoldenEye (1995)

Alec Trevelyan: We're both orphans, James. But while your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads. My father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame. MI6 figured I was too young to remember. And in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government whose betrayal caused the father to kill himself and his wife.

James Bond: Hence Janus. The two-faced Roman god come to life.

Alec Trevelyan: It wasn't God who gave me this face! It was you, setting the timers for three minutes instead of six.

James Bond: Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?

Alec Trevelyan: No. You were supposed to die for me.

[pause]

Alec Trevelyan: And, by the way, I did think about asking you to join my little scheme but somehow I knew, 007's loyalty was always to the mission, never to his friend.

[louder]

Alec Trevelyan: Closing time, James! Last call.

[Bond raises his gun to kill Alec but is tranquilized by a sniper]

Alec Trevelyan: [walks towards Bond and looks down on him] For England, James.

[Bond and Natalya are trying to escape from the train when Trevelyan talks to them on the loudspeaker]

Alec Trevelyan: Good luck with the floor James. I've set the timers for six minutes, the same six minutes you gave me. It was the least I could do for a "friend".

[snickers]

Natalya Simonova: What does he mean?

James Bond: We've got three minutes.

Alec Trevelyan: [hanging from his foot held by Bond's hands] For England, James?

James Bond: No. For me.

[lets Trevelyan go]

Alec Trevelyan: In 16 minutes and 43 sec - in 42 seconds, the United Kingdom will reenter the stone age.

James Bond: A worldwide financial meltdown. And all so mad little Alec can settle a score with the world, 50 years on.

Alec Trevelyan: Oh, please James, spare me the Freud. I might as well ask you for the vodka martinis that have silenced the screams of all the men you've killed... or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect.

Alec Trevelyan: James... what an unpleasant surprise.

James Bond: We aim to please.

Alec Trevelyan: [grabs a machine gun that's on the ground but Bond puts his foot on it first] Why can't you just be a good boy and die?

James Bond: You first.

[looks at Xenia]

James Bond: You, second. UP!

James Bond: Alec?

Alec Trevelyan: Back from the dead. No longer just an anonymous star on the memorial wall at MI6. What's the matter, James? No glib remark? No pithy comeback?

Alec Trevelyan: [arms the Goldeneye to fire at London] God save the Queen.

James Bond: I trusted you, Alec.

Alec Trevelyan: Trust? What a quaint idea.

Alec Trevelyan: So, what's the choice, James? Two targets - time enough for one shot: the girl or the mission?

James Bond: It's too easy.

Alec Trevelyan: Half of everything is luck, James.

James Bond: And the other half?

[alarms begin to go off]

Alec Trevelyan: Fate!

Alec Trevelyan: See you in hell, James.

James Bond: Why?

Alec Trevelyan: Hilarious question, particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those dictators, undermined all those regimes, only to come home: "Well done, good job, but sorry, old boy, everything you risked your life and limb for has changed."

James Bond: It was the job we were chosen for.

Alec Trevelyan: Of course you'd say that, James Bond, her majesty's loyal terrier, defender of the so-called faith.

Alec Trevelyan: You're late, 007.

James Bond: I had to stop in the bathroom.

Alec Trevelyan: Ready to save the world again?

James Bond: After you, 006.

Alec Trevelyan: James, for England.

James Bond: For England, Alec.

Alec Trevelyan: [to Natalia] Take a seat, my dear. You know, James and I shared everything. Absolutely everything... to the victor go the spoils.

Alec Trevelyan: Bond is alive?

General Ourumov: He escaped.

Alec Trevelyan: Good for Bond. Bad for you.

Alec Trevelyan: You know, James... I was always better.

[Trevelyan and Ourumov are holding Natalya hostage on the train]

James Bond: Ourumov, what has this Cossack promised you? You knew, didn't you? He's a Lienz Cossack.

Alec Trevelyan: It's in the past.

James Bond: He'll betray you! Just like everyone else.

General Ourumov: Is this true?

Alec Trevelyan: What's true is that in 48 hours you and I will have more money than God. And Mr. Bond here will have a small memorial service with only Moneypenny and a few tearful restaurateurs in attendance.

[after 006 kisses Natalya]

Alec Trevelyan: Lovely girl. Tastes like... like strawberries.

James Bond: I wouldn't know.

Alec Trevelyan: I would.

Natalya Simonova: This is not one of your games, Boris. Real people will die, you pathetic little worm!

Alec Trevelyan: She was in the mainframe. Check the computer.

Boris Grishenko: She's a moron. A second level programmer.

[mockingly]

Boris Grishenko: She works on the guidance system. She doesn't even have access to the filing codes.

[Alarm starts buzzing]

James Bond: I'm alone.

Alec Trevelyan: Aren't we all?

Alec Trevelyan: Bond. Only Bond.

Alec Trevelyan: Kill him. The man just won't take a hint.

[Bond draws his gun]

Alec Trevelyan: Oh, please, James, put it away. It's insulting to think I haven't anticipated your every move.

James Bond: You break into the Bank of England via computer, and transfer the money electronically. Just minutes before you set off the GoldenEye, which erases any trace of the transactions. Ingenious.

Alec Trevelyan: Thank you, James.

James Bond: But still, it boils down to petty theft. In the end, you're just a bank robber. Nothing more than a common thief.

Alec Trevelyan: Closing time, James. Last call!

James Bond: Buy me a pint.

Alec Trevelyan: [From his private train, sees a tank blocking the railroad tracks ahead] Bond. Only Bond.

Xenia Onatopp: [excitedly] He's going to derail us.

Alec Trevelyan: Full speed! Full speed!

Alec Trevelyan: Situation analysis: hopeless. You have no backup. No escape route. And I - have the only bargaining chip.

James Bond: Where is she?

Alec Trevelyan: Ah, yes. Your fatal weakness.

[On a Walkie Talkie]

Alec Trevelyan: Ourumov, bring her in.

Alec Trevelyan: For England, James?

James Bond: No. For me!

[Bond let's go of Trevelyan's foot and Trevelyan falls]