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  • No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond. -- Richard Hammond
  • I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though. -- Matt Smith
  • I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. -- Sean Connery
  • I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. -- Emmanuel Jal
  • That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond. -- Joel Edgerton
  • James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems! -- Sean Connery
  • Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. -- Mike Myers
  • James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention. -- Gene Simmons
  • My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day. -- Robert Wagner
  • I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us? -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike. -- Steve Truglia
  • Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. -- Mike Myers
  • It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker. -- Judd Nelson
  • I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. -- Timothy Dalton
  • My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. -- Toby Young
  • The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond. -- Luke Evans
  • People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites. -- Ian Fleming
  • We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society. -- Jack Falahee
  • 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
  • Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point. -- John Logan
  • My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. -- Ian Fleming
  • Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually. -- Steve Martin
  • Mine's Bond "? James Bond. -- Ian Fleming
  • I'm the fourth best James Bond. -- Roger Moore
  • I will be the first black James Bond. -- Dhani Jones
  • A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. -- Steve Truglia
  • What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond? -- Jamie Dornan
  • Im a huge fan of the James Bond genre. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond -- Sophie Marceau
  • Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond. -- Sophie Marceau
  • My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry. -- Ken Adam
  • I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond. -- Bob Kane
  • I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond! -- Charlie Rowe
  • I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond. -- Barbara Broccoli
  • I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie. -- Ursula Andress
  • I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. -- Werner Herzog
  • There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond. -- Rupert Everett
  • You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. -- Minnie Driver
  • I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery] -- Ian Fleming
  • Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous. -- Jim Butcher
  • The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979. -- Michael Weatherly
  • I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting. -- Javier Bardem
  • I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond. -- Val Guest
  • I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day. -- Tom Brady
  • Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent. -- Alex Berenson
  • In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore. -- Winona Ryder
  • James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist. -- O Anna Niemus
  • I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation. -- Audrey Tautou
  • I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond "? only younger, darker, and possibly better paid. -- Mohsin Hamid
  • I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. -- Mark Gatiss
  • I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits." -- Mark Gatiss
  • I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig. -- Olivia Williams
  • Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond. -- Vincent Tan
  • You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain. -- Sam Altman
  • This is an Aston Martin, Gin.You don't run over dead bodies in an Aston Matin." "Tell that to James Bond -- Jennifer Estep
  • I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. -- Dave Barry
  • I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun. -- Heather Mills
  • I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. -- Moby
  • I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies." -- Kurt Busiek
  • The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. -- Idris Elba
  • Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie. -- Dennis Miller
  • John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then. -- Carter Burwell
  • I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way. -- Ian Fleming
  • I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan. -- Christopher Lee
  • Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film -- Sean Connery
  • I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way. -- Berenice Marlohe
  • You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies? -- Katie MacAlister
  • The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond. -- Jason Mraz
  • I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills. -- Donnie Yen
  • Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday. -- J. August Richards
  • I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond. -- Nicolas Cage
  • Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.' -- Barbara Carrera
  • If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something. -- Antonio Banderas
  • The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them. -- Kevin J. Anderson
  • I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it. -- Debby Ryan
  • I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than Mr. Bean most definitely. -- Rowan Atkinson
  • 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 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties. -- Gene Roddenberry
  • James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. -- Ken Follett
  • I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising. -- Ridley Scott
  • I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting. -- Luke Benward
  • When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond. -- Ben Mendelsohn
  • In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on. -- Thomas Frank
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  • I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing. -- Werner Herzog
  • It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying. -- Helen Mirren
  • Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond. -- Idris Elba
  • [James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond. -- Sean Connery
  • Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable. -- Brendan Dooling
  • I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.' -- Pierce Brosnan
  • James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
  • I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was. -- Dick Bruna
  • Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce. -- Mo Abudu
  • One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding. -- Barbara Broccoli
  • I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical. -- Ray Harryhausen
  • Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves. -- Johnny Carson
  • Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
  • When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise. -- Doug Liman
  • I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise. -- Doug Liman
  • Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was -- Katie MacAlister
  • When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great. -- Matthew Lewis
  • It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources. -- Ralph Fiennes
  • To me Arthur and James Bond aren't the same because they both drink. So I would kind of equate it to that. They're different guys who both have a similar habit. To me they're very different guys though. -- Seth Rogen
  • There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition. -- Kurt Busiek
  • I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours. -- King Hu
  • Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now. -- Adam Rayner
  • I love both [Johnny English and James Bond] actually. The action sequences are really exciting because you're getting to work with some brilliant crew and do some great stuff but you always get some magic when you're working with actors. -- Rowan Atkinson
  • Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. I did a lot of research on him too but during the promotions, I focused mainly on Johnny Depp. There's a mysterious charm about him just by the way he looks, talks and moves. -- Seungri
  • In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond. -- Marc Guggenheim
  • Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was? -- Linda Colley
  • My agent called me and said, "You have an audition for James Bond. They're looking for the girl." And I told him, "Listen, it's all in English. I'm not an actress. I'm not going to go." He thought I was kidding with him. -- Gal Gadot
  • I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels. -- Michael Riedel
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