Being Quote by Michael Korda

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

— Christopher Lee

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it…

— William Boyd

“Ian Fleming The CBC Interview, 1953 He doesn’t use Anglo-Saxon four-letter words, “I don’t like seeing them on the page.” When asked why his…

— Ian Fleming

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

— Roger Moore

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like…

— Ian Mckellen

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That…

— Antonio Banderas

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did…

— Robert Vaughn

I've got so much respect for 'Bond.' It's such an iconic cultural behemoth. I love the whole story - Ian Fleming's stories are amazing.

— Henry Golding

“I want to be more like James Bond, and less like Ian Fleming.”

— Jarod Kintz

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

— E. M. Delafield

The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat…

— Joseph Addison