I try not the count chickens, and I really do because there's no point because you go crazy. I'm very happy with the way this is working out. If they do another movie I'd love to do, and we'll fit in it.
I don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness.
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 love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.
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.
I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.
I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.
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.
There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.
The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it.
So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.
It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.
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.
The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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.
Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.
Philip is being very vocal about it. For me, I don't think the story isn't at all anti-religious in any way. I think what's it more against is the control and the misuse of power that any organised religion, or any political organisation exercises over the people they're supposed to represent. I think that, for me, is what's important in the movie.
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
