Val Guest Quotes

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

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.

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

I remember I went to audition for the first Daniel Craig Bond film, 'Casino Royale.' I was there in this Versace dress, and I remember looking in the mirror, and I couldn't have felt less like a Bond girl if I tried.

I knew I was going to be in 'Spectre,' but I didn't realize I was a 'Bond girl' until they announced it.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

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

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

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

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.

I have three brothers; we've been playing James Bond forever.

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.

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

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the world and I am known; it put me on the international map.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.