Quotes from Daniel Craig

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

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

Good scripts are hard to find.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

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.

I take my work seriously.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

I don't care what other people are doing.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

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.

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

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?'

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

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.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

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.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

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

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.