MI6 Quotes

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

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

The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool.

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.

I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at his house at 211 King's Road, Chelsea, the garden of which he shared with Peter Ustinov.

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

Mine’s Bond – James Bond.