James Bond series quotes

View Quote Sean Connery "Connery's take on life in the movies", Rogerebert.com, (Dec 25th 2000).

View Quote Sean Connery in Playboy, (1965); as quoted in "Sean Connery On James Bond", Stuff Nobody Cares About.

View Quote Sean Connery in Anthony Carthew, New York Times, (1964); as quoted in "Sean Connery On James Bond", Stuff Nobody Cares About.

View Quote Sean Connery in Elizabeth Trotta, Newsday, (1963) as quoted in "Sean Connery On James Bond", Stuff Nobody Cares About.

View Quote Sean Connery in Leonard Mosley, New York Times, (1964), as quoted in "Sean Connery On James Bond", Stuff Nobody Cares About.

View Quote Sean Connery in Oriana Fallaci, interview in Paris, (1965); as quoted in "Sean Connery On James Bond", Stuff Nobody Cares About.

View Quote Sean Connery, (1983); as quoted in "Roger Moore dead: Revisting Sean Connery's brutal critique of actor's James Bond portrayal" Independent, (23 May 2017).

View Quote Sean Connery, Sydney Morning Herald, (1963); as quoted in "Sean Connery On James Bond", Stuff Nobody Cares About.

View Quote Shaken, not stirred. [Also used below]

View Quote Some variant as quoted in Telegraph

View Quote The only real difficulty I found in playing Bond was that I had to start from scratch. Nobody knew anything about him, after all. Not even Fleming. Does he have parents? Where does he come from? Nobody knows. But we played it for laughs, and people seem to feel it comes off quite well.

View Quote The real hidden gem of the Bond series’ financials lies in the marketing sponsorships it generates. Every major brand—Omega watches, Gillette shavers, Belvedere vodka, Heineken beer—wants to be associated with 007’s prestige. Jacques de ****, a marketing consultant and lecturer at the London School of Marketing, estimates that the franchise has earned between $4 billion and $5 billion in marketing sponsorships since 1962’s Dr. No. If we’re working from the high end of that projection, that amounts to roughly $208 million per film. For perspective, Skyfall‘s entire production budget was $200 million. But that sponsorship money is going to the production companies, not the distributor. Still, that means the cost of each film is practically covered, and then some, long before the actual movie arrives in theaters. For that reason, the James Bond series may never end (there was even talk about a small-screen spin-off when Apple and Amazon were vying for the rights). These days, Hollywood is built on repetitive cash flow (i.e., sequels), but unlike the Star Wars or Harry Potter films—which earn more on average picture by picture, but only run for eight or nine installments—Bond is set up to live on ad infinitum.

View Quote Timothy Dalton in "Celebrating Timothy Dalton’s James Bond" by Mark Harrison, Den of Geek, (Oct 29, 2012).

View Quote With James Bond, people are sure there's gonna be a bit of sex, a bit of fun, a bit of action, a bit of drama and it's gonna be a bit of a joyride. My personal choice is From Russia With Love because that's got all the glamour and the locations and the twists and the humor and rather good storytelling, and places like Istanbul. The Bond pictures will continue on, I suppose.

View Quote Yaphet Kotto, "Former 007 villain Yaphet Kotto says James Bond cannot be black", Ben Child, The Guardian, (8 April 2015).