Top 90 Daniel Craig Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a really bad liar.”

— Daniel Craig

2. “I like going to the gym every day because I’m in physiotherapy every day.”

— Daniel Craig

3. “I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.”

— Daniel Craig

4. “You get used to the rejection and you don’t take it personally.”

— Daniel Craig

5. “I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.”

— Daniel Craig

6. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

7. “You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.”

— Daniel Craig

8. “So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.”

— Daniel Craig

9. “I’ve always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.”

— Daniel Craig

10. “The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: ‘I could’ve been Bond. Buy me a drink.’ That’s the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: ‘I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.’”

— Daniel Craig

11. “I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.”

— Daniel Craig

12. “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

13. “It’s not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.”

— Daniel Craig

14. “There’s a conscious decision to everything I do.”

— Daniel Craig

15. “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?’”

— Daniel Craig

16. “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

17. “I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn’t be anything else.”

— Daniel Craig

18. “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!”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

20. “The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.”

— Daniel Craig

21. “Good scripts are hard to find.”

— Daniel Craig

22. “I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can’t recreate.”

— Daniel Craig

23. “There’s always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.”

— Daniel Craig

24. “Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don’t trust myself. I need that balance.”

— Daniel Craig

25. “I can’t go to war with paparazzi.”

— Daniel Craig

26. “It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character.”

— Daniel Craig

27. “I don’t see the world in sexual divisions.”

— Daniel Craig

28. “I love that my friends are all freaks.”

— Daniel Craig

29. “Throw the computer away and don’t look on the internet. That’s the best thing to do.”

— Daniel Craig

30. “A secret is a secret in my mind.”

— Daniel Craig

31. “I guess you could say I’ve been in my share of violent movies.”

— Daniel Craig

32. “I’ve always loved to dress up a bit and show off.”

— Daniel Craig

33. “I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he’s hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.”

— Daniel Craig

34. “I’ve never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it’s just too many lines.”

— Daniel Craig

35. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

36. “Revenge doesn’t stop.”

— Daniel Craig

37. “I’d hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That’s not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.”

— Daniel Craig

38. “I’m definitely not satisfied about my career. I don’t know how you can be, it’s the very nature of things.”

— Daniel Craig

39. “I’ve seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It’s a bad place to be and that’s why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.”

— Daniel Craig

40. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

41. “He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.”

— Daniel Craig

42. “There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.”

— Daniel Craig

43. “When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It’s what makes reading such a wonderful thing.”

— Daniel Craig

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44. “I don’t want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It’s just madness.”

— Daniel Craig

45. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

46. “I’m quite good at leaning against a bar.”

— Daniel Craig

47. “When you’re making movies you’ve got to get obsessive.”

— Daniel Craig

48. “I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn’t, I feel awkward with.”

— Daniel Craig

49. “The last thing on earth I wanted was to make a Bond movie.”

— Daniel Craig

50. “Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn’t think that, they’re crap. But I know I’m going to lose some of that and that’s something I’ll have to deal with.”

— Daniel Craig