Top 90 Daniel Craig Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “In many films, as many different characters, I’ve killed many different people.”

— Daniel Craig

52. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

53. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

54. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

56. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

57. “I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.”

— Daniel Craig

58. “Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I’ve just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It’s changed in the fact that I don’t have the freedoms I did before, but I’ve also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.”

— Daniel Craig

59. “Anybody can leap off a building.”

— Daniel Craig

60. “I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”

— Daniel Craig

61. “The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.”

— Daniel Craig

62. “It’s a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.”

— Daniel Craig

63. “We are kidding ourselves if we don’t think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It’s what funds governments. It’s too much money to ignore.”

— Daniel Craig

64. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

65. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

66. “I never had any boyhood ambitions.”

— Daniel Craig

67. “If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I’ve been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.”

— Daniel Craig

68. “I’m not averse to earning someone; in fact I’d love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don’t tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn’t mean I don’t want to earn shitloads of cash.”

— Daniel Craig

69. “I never really had a strong accent.”

— Daniel Craig

70. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

71. “I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past, then threw all that away once I started doing the role.”

— Daniel Craig

72. “If you invite someone into your front room you can’t be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.”

— Daniel Craig

73. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

74. “The bad reviews get to me, believe me.”

— Daniel Craig

75. “You’re creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

77. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

78. “Things need shaking up politically, culturally.”

— Daniel Craig

79. “Action movies live and die by the story that you’re trying to tell. It’s hard. It’s very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.”

— Daniel Craig

80. “I always wanted to make movies.”

— Daniel Craig

81. “There are things about guys who are in the army. They’re very particular, they have to be.”

— Daniel Craig

82. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

83. “Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven’t got a golden handcuff.”

— Daniel Craig

84. “Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.”

— Daniel Craig

85. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

86. “Even the worst Bond movies, there’s something to love about them.”

— Daniel Craig

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

— Daniel Craig

88. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

89. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

90. “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.”

— Daniel Craig

91. “In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.”

— Daniel Craig

92. “I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.”

— Daniel Craig

93. “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.’”

— Daniel Craig

94. “I have never played a role in which someone’s dark side shouldn’t be explored.”

— Daniel Craig