Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was…

“I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Women are often meticulous and safe drivers, but they are very seldom first-class. In general, Bond regarded them as a mild hazard and he…

— Ian Fleming

I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I…

— Ian Fleming

“Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.”

— Paul Kyriazi

It was also great shooting in London at Pinewood Studios because of all its history. So many of the 007 movies were filmed there,…

— Naomie Harris

“My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have stumbled by mischance into…

— Ian Fleming

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

— Angelina Jolie

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

— Sean Connery

See, it's kind of like James Bond. There's a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new 'MacGyver' and…

— Lucas Till

My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.

— Udo Kier

I will be the first black James Bond.

— Dhani Jones

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you…

— Pierce Brosnan

Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than…

— Rowan Atkinson

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

— Richard Hammond

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were…

— Doug Liman