A biography for Daniel Craighasn’t been written yet.
“I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.”
“He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.”
“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.'”
“I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.”
“I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.”
“The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.”
“I don't care about how much other actors get.”
“I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.”
“You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.”
“There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.”
“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?'”
“I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.”
“Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.”
“It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.”
“You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.”
“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.”
“The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'”
“I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.”
“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.”
“Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.”