Graves Quotes in Die Another Day (2002)

James Bond: [a device closes; cocks gun] So you lived to die another day... Colonel.

Graves: At last... I was beginning to think you would never guess.

James Bond: Was it painful? The gene therapy.

Graves: You couldn't possibly imagine.

James Bond: Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that.

Graves: But there have been compensations, like you floating around in peril. Granting you life day by day just to see you get wise. It's been fun.

James Bond: Well, the fun is about to come to a dead end.

Graves: [Spoiler Quote]

[Miranda point her gun at Graves]

Graves: So... Miss Frost is not all she seems.

James Bond: Looks can be deceptive.

Graves: Yes. By the way, did you find out who betrayed you in North Korea?

James Bond: Only a matter of time.

Graves: You never even thought of looking inside your own organization?

[Miranda turns against MI6 by pointing the gun at James]

Graves: She was right under your nose.

Miranda Frost: [James shoots, but his gun is empty] It was so good of you to bring your gun in bed with us.

James Bond: Yes. Occupational hazard.

[throws the empty pistol on the floor]

Graves: You see, I have a gift. An instinct for sensing people's weaknesses. Yours is women. Hers and mine are winning, whatever the cost. So when I arranged for that fatal overdose for the true victor at Sydney, I won myself my very own MI6 agent, using everthing at my disposal - her brains, her talent, even her sex.

James Bond: The coldest weapon of all.

[Graves and Bond are fighting in a depressurizing plane]

Graves: Ya see Mr. Bond, you can't kill my dreams. But my dreams can kill you. Time to face destiny.

[James pulls Graves' parachute cord]

James Bond: Time to face gravity.

Graves: We only met briefly, but you left a lasting impression. You see, when your intervention forced me to present the world with a new face, I chose to model the disgusting Gustav Graves on you. I paid attention to details - that unjustifiable swagger, the crass quips, the self-defence mechanism concealing such inadequacy...

James Bond: [holding up his Walther P99] My self-defence mechanism's right here.

Graves: The pleasure of the kill is in the chase.

James Bond: I see you don't chase dreams, you live them.

Graves: One of the virtues of never sleeping, Mr. Bond. I have to live my dreams. Besides, plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

Graves: [fencing with Bond] Since you've upped the stakes, let's up the weapons, shall we? Let's do this the old-fashioned way - first blood drawn from the torso!

[He grabs two swords and throws one to Bond]

Graves: You only get one shot at life. Why waste it on sleep?

Graves: Look. Parachutes for both of us.

[throws one out the window]

Graves: Whoops. Not anymore.

Reporter: We've been hearing rumors about the Icarus space program. What's the big secret?

Graves: It's not a secret, it's a surprise.

Graves: What a wonderful day to become a knight.

General Moon: I don't know you.

Graves: You always found it difficult to accept me. That made my exile easier to bear, but, I never forgot what you taught me: In war, the victorious strategist only seeks battle...

Graves, General Moon: After the victory has been won.

Graves: You see, father, I remember my Art of War.

Graves: Are you a gambling man Mr. Bond?

James Bond: If the stakes are right.

Graves: You have no idea how much Icarus is about to change your world.

Graves: Armed and very dangerous.

Reporter: Are you going to try out for the British fencing team? We hear you have been training furiously.

Graves: I never get furious. As we say in fencing, "What's the point?'

Graves: And Mr.?

James Bond: Bond. James Bond

Reporter: After an entrance like that you can't be surprised you've been called a self-publicizing adrenaline junkie, can you?

Graves: I prefer the term adventurer.

Graves: You're a rare challenge, Mr. Bond.

Graves: Glad you could make it Mr. Bond. How did you like my run?

James Bond: Like a man on the edge of losing control.

Graves: It's only by being on the edge that we know who we really are - under the skin.

Graves: He died chasing a dream. Isn't that the way to go?

James Bond: I'd rather not go at all.

Graves: Come father, watch the rising of your son.

Graves: Time to draw the line.

James Bond: There will be others after me. You know that.

Graves: Oh, you mean your American friend Jinx? Soon to be the victim of a tragedy. An ice palace can be such a treacherous place.

Graves: Care to place a bet, Verity?

Verity: No, thanks. I don't like cockfights.

Graves: Hey Downs, what do you do for a living?

Downs: I blow up things, especially people. Bend over captain, I'll give you a demonstration.

Graves: After enemy jet crashes into wall "Gotta watch those right turn's homeboy".

Sinclair: [walking up to Vardovsky on the tar-mac on the morning of flying back home] Did you tell them?

Col. Vardovsky: Everything.

Sinclair: Well now you know.

Graves: Yes, sir.

Sinclair: That suits me just fine. I'm sick and tired of workin with a bunch of Commies anyway.

[Downs starts lauging and Chappy joins in]

Sinclair: Hey, here's your chance.

[holds up an Uzi 9mm]

Sinclair: Shoot one of them commie bastards.

[Downs and Chappy laughs as Chappy gives him an Uzi]

Sinclair: Shoot one of them! Ohhh I get it you don't want to shoot an unarmed man! Koshkin come here.

[gives Koshkin an Uzi, Koshkin shoots down at the ground]

Sinclair: What's the matter! Don't any of you have the guts to shoot the enemy? Hey Cooper, Lebanov come here.

[holds both Uzis for them to take]

Sinclair: Here you go. Come on! Well, come on!

[neither takes a step towards Chappy for a gun]

Sinclair: That's what I thought. Nobody has the guts! You're losers that's what they said. They sent you guys here because they knew you were gonna fail, and you know what they picked right! But I'm grateful to you, you know I'm very grateful because you taught me something today you taught me something about courage. It took a lot of courage to come over here with a bunch of people from the other side when deep down you hated what they stood for! You know I'm really grateful it took a lot of courage to hold on to that prejudice when we fought so hard to cut it out of you! Very grateful, people. But as you fly out of here today I want you to ask yourselves one thing. Where was that courage when you had the chance to stop them from killing thousands of people who had no reason to die? Ah! Well you're transports will leave here in an hour, and you'll go home a bunch of failures and a bunch of losers!

[walks away from the bunch]

Cooper: [turns to face Chappy with Zuyenko] General!

[tears the flag patch off of his flight suit and Zuyenko does as well as the rest of them]

Sinclair: All right we have less than 24 hours to prepare. We have to beat a couple bombers to the target.

[rips the flag patch off his uniform]

Sinclair: [they all look down at the ground where the U.S. and Russian flag patches lay]

Graves: (off the Barber Chud walking waywardly down the street) What the hell is that?

Colonel Masters: Only the God damndest, ugliest barber I've ever seen.

[Vann talks to the imaginary agents Graves and Blair]

Vann Siegert: Once when I was young... I was laying in the grass, and a spider crawled in my ear. And...

Graves: And?

Vann Siegert: Well, he crawled out again. Nobody home.

[Vann smiles a big smile]

[Vann sees Blair and Graves stand over him as he stands in an empty grave]

Blair: How about the carpet salesman, Glenn Skile? Was that your first? They never find the corpses, do they, Vann?

Graves: Nobody will know shit, except the soft, dead Earth. Right, Vann? That where you keep 'em?

[Vann sits in his bedroom looking at the stack of mail he took from his route]

Blair: [Vann hears the voices talk behind him] What are you doing? That's a federal offense, isn't it?

Graves: Yeah. Didn't you read the Carrier's Manual? You think crime is some fucking kind of entertainment. Reading other people's mail?

Vann Siegert: You tell me.

Blair: No, no, it's not our job, Vaninsky.

[Vann shows Graves and Blair his different expressions]

Graves: Speak up, Vann. Express yourself.

Vann Siegert: I got seven expressions. but I'll show you guys two if you want to see them.

[Vann stands up in the center of his bedroom as Graves and Blair watch, Vann then makes the expression of himself getting electrocuted without any sound, then stops, turns to the side, and then expresses himself from the side view getting electrocuted, stopping, facing back to Graves and Blair]

Blair: That's not bad. Except number two looks an awful lot like number one.

[Vann sits in an interrogation room talking to Graves and Blair]

Graves: Don't give him shit. What's he given us?

Blair: What he means, Vann, is you're just giving us stock answers.

Vann Siegert: Well, I think one thing you guys oughta learn is that the story's mine, it belongs to me, so I think I'll tell it my way.

Graves: No matter which fucking way you tell it, gas chamber is where you're headed, Siegert.

Vann Siegert: That's one guess.

Graves: Just like Ted Bundy.

Vann Siegert: Who?

Graves: Mm-hmm. Yeah, he talked real big, too. But in the end, it took two deputies to hold him down.

[Graves and Blair talk to Vann about the witnesses]

Graves: Two guys just like us are gonna be taking over this case full-time. They're gonna read the coroner's report. And every time they do, they're gonna find something new.

Blair: Interview the customers, the cook, that girl at the diner. Then back to that asshole bartender. The lady with the baby. Then they'll have some artist start to make a sketch of what they describe.