Daniel Craig
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.Collection: Fitness
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.Collection: Funny
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.Collection: Movies
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.Collection: Amazing
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.Collection: Sad
I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.Collection: Sad
I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
Anybody can leap off a building.
I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
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.
Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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.
You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
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.
I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
I never really had a strong accent.
I always wanted to make movies.
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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.
I love that my friends are all freaks.
The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
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 have to be myself.
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
I don't care about how much other actors get.
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
My family and friends treat me as they always have.
I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
Revenge doesn't stop.
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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!
I can't go to war with paparazzi.
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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?'
I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
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.
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've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
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.
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.
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.