Quotes By Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

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've done a lot of things in my life.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

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

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

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

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

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.

I love that my friends are all freaks.

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

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

I've been very lucky.

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.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'