Richard Hammond Quotes

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

I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

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

I love watching action movies. I love 007.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

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.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

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.

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

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

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

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?

Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

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

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity.

Germans aren't action fans. The only kind of action that really works is 'Bond.'

I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.

My goal in the beginning was to build a lifestyle brand around what I love to do, which is motorcycles and cars. That was our main goal from the very beginning.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

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.