J. August Richards Quotes

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.

What I want to be is James Bond.

I'm absolutely loving being part of Bondiana, and that not only am I a Bond girl, but I get to be an agent as well.

I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

I want to be James Bond! I don't want to be Doctor Who.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

I grew up with Bond.

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

Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?

I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I can be the best James Bond there is.

'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

I could never be James Bond.

I've always loved the Bond films.

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.