Old news (but still interesting)

[Anglophile]

He said: "Sometimes I think they are getting bluer, maybe. But maybe in 10 years' time they're going to go buoomph! And just go out, and that'll be it. Old grey eyes is back."

Oh yeah that sounds reeeeeeally paranoid. They'll never get his kind of humour...

[Germangirl]

Didn´t find the quotes thread - they are old but still nice ...

Daniel: I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Daniel: (on Nicole Kidman) She turns me on. Not in a sordid, horrible way. Well, come to think of it

Daniel: (on the movie “Casino Royale“) It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape. Thank God I did, because I did as many of the stunts as I could — I got injured, I got hurt, but I never missed a day filming. Touch wood, I never will. It was important to do all that, yeah.

Daniel: I'd love to get into buying art. I haven't started making money yet. If this is a success [Casino Royale], then I'd be making money. I'd love to have the money to buy art. It's very poor taste to talk about money. Needless to say, I'm very happy with my deal. Maybe it's British reserve. I don't have an Aston Martin either, but I'd like one.

Daniel: (on Nicole Kidman ) I love Nicole. She's a wonderful lady and I really enjoy working with her, so it's a good thing and a happy thing for me to be able to work with her again.

Daniel: (on his Bond action figure) [Laughs] It's home at the moment, sitting on my kitchen table. I don't think you can ever be happy with it — he scowls a lot! He may need to soften up a little bit.

Daniel: (asked if he considered dyeing his hair black for the Bond role) Never for one second did I think about dyeing my hair! My hair was not an issue. I didn't want to be thinking about what's on top of my head. Hopefully, now it's not an issue. Hopefully, people don't see it now. Hopefully, I've got other things to offer than hair colour.

Daniel: (on the criticism from Bond fans when he was first cast) Well, I get it. There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond — and so have I. But I was being criticised before I had presented anything, so it was name calling. I just had to be quiet and say, "Forget it. I can't think about it. I have to move forward and concentrate on getting this job right

Daniel: (On getting the role of James Bond) When I heard that I got the part, the first thing I did was getting really drunk. And when I talk about beer, I talk about Guinness! Other than that, you can make me happy with red wine and a good Vodka Martini.

Daniel: (About meeting Steven Spielberg for the first time) Terrifying. Well, not terrifying, it was actually great for me to meet Spielberg, I just had one of those phone calls like, Steven Spielberg wants to meet you, and I thought "f*ck off, you've got to be joking." Next thing I'm on a train to Paris. I went into the meeting and walked out and went, "that went quite well."

Daniel: I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other. That's a simple fact. I've seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them.

Fred Topel:The minimum bid for your autograph is $150. How does that make you feel?
Daniel: I don't care, really. You'll be mistaking me for one of those actors who gives a f*** [about status].

Daniel: If, say, I get a film with hate, tears and anger when I am nowhere even close to that level of emotion at that moment, then I will not do it. Films take a big chunk out of me. It's as simple as that. I put everything I can into it. So my choices are completely personal

Daniel: I'd always wanted to be an actor. My earliest memories are of dressing up, trying to get a lot of attention. I'd love to act, and I come from an artistic family in some respects. It's a great outlet, and at it's very best it sort of changes people's opinions about things, and attitudes towards things, whatever you do it's political, and everything you do should be political- you should be trying to make a point about something. And if you can manage to do that, then you're succeeding as an artist.

[Daskedusken]

Interesting read, thanks for posting GG

[Germangirl]

Interesting read, thanks for posting GG

You´re welcome. Here are some pics to go with it...

[Anglophile]

Brilliant, GG! Where did you find these?

[Germangirl]

Brilliant, GG! Where did you find these?

One of them page I fall over from time to time - can´t say anymore

[Anglophile]

Brilliant, GG! Where did you find these?

One of them page I fall over from time to time - can´t say anymore

Well as long as you keep falling over them, that's okay

[Germangirl]

Brilliant, GG! Where did you find these?

One of them page I fall over from time to time - can´t say anymore

Well as long as you keep falling over them, that's okay

Right

[Jana66]

Daniel: (On getting the role of James Bond) When I heard that I got the part, the first thing I did was getting really drunk. And when I talk about beer, I talk about Guinness! Other than that, you can make me happy with red wine and a good Vodka Martini.

I always think, I do know al lot (because I always try to see and read and remember everything about Daniel)...but I must lost this one. Daniel likes red wine! Good, to know that...I share this kind of preferece with Daniel .

[Daskedusken]

I enjoy this interview, so I would lie to share it with you:

http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv/feat ... erview.asp

[Browneyed_LadyBond]

you can make me happy with red wine

Lol...I love red wine! One of my favourite drinks ......Wanna have a drink Daniel?

[Browneyed_LadyBond]

I enjoy this interview, so I would lie to share it with you:

http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv/feat ... erview.asp

Thank you for this Aragorn!....liked it

[Daskedusken]

Thank you for this Aragorn!....liked it

You're welcome, it's only my pleasure

[Daskedusken]

The Sunday Tribune; November 14, 2004

DANIEL CRAIG can't get away from love. It's in the title of several of his movies. He's the artist Francis Bacon's sadomasochistic lover in John Maybury's Love is the Devil. He plays a Lady Chatterley-type gamekeeper who seduces Greta Scacchi in Cathal Black's Love and Rage. Now he's a scientist with a rational explanation for everything who becomes a male stalker's object of desire in Ian McEwen's Enduring Love. And that's not to mention The Mother, where he has a daringly explicit bed scene with 64-year-old Anne Reid, or his portrayal of the compulsively unfaithful poet Ted Hughes in Sylvia.

So is the 36-year-old Liverpool actor with the lethal blue eyes . . . recently targeted in the British tabloids for his association with the model Kate Moss . . . by now an expert on affairs of the heart? "I'll need another hundred years, and I'd still only be scratching the surface," he tells me. "It's an exploration that you could never get to the bottom of."

His character in Enduring Love claims that love is just biology. "But if love is a genetic mistake, how wonderful and beautiful is that?" says Daniel. "Science destroys faith in anything. But it's always screwed up by some irritating fact. You do stupid things, in all sorts of wonderful ways.

"There's just as much chance that there is a God as that there isn't. So why not veer in the direction of God and say that there is a divine, there is some greater force, whatever it is, even if it comes from within? You have to embrace the likelihood of it, otherwise life isn't worth living."

He's drawn to characters who think they're in control of their lives but find that they're not. Like the cocaine dealer in the crime thriller Layer Cake, to whom drugs are just a business like any other business and who is methodically putting aside enough cash to retire early, or even the psychopathic son in The Road to Perdition, trying to emulate his father by becoming a criminal mastermind.

"Fallibility is what makes people interesting, or how they deal with that fallibility, and whether they can find their true self when they are feeling weak or cornered."

Daniel was born in Chester but grew up in Liverpool, where his mother went to art college and his stepfather was the painter, Max Blond. "I left in 1985, " he says. "God, it was depressing . . . people so desperate that they were knocking at the door at night trying to scrape a living." His mother spotted an ad for the National Youth Theatre and pushed him to apply. "Although I never had a very strong Scouse accent, I had to get rid of what I had. That's changed now. You're allowed to use your own distinctive talent rather than repress it."

Craig first came to attention as a Geordie who tries to make it in Soho's sleazy sex business in the popular TV series, Our Friends In The North. Soon after he played a devious priest in Shekar Kapur's Elizabeth. He nearly didn't accept the role of the builder who has a fling with Anne Reid in Hanif Kureishi's The Mother, directed by Roger Michel who also directs Enduring Love. "When I read it, I didn't like any of the characters, " he says.

"Hanif picks out the nastiness in all of us particularly well. I was a bit nervous about it. So Roger said, don't worry, come and have a chat. And I was hooked."
Enduring Love opens . . . like McEwen's novel . . . with one of the most unexpectedly shocking sequences imaginable. What seems to be a picture postcard romantic picnic suddenly turns into tragedy, with consequences that seep like poison through the lives of Daniel's character and his girlfriend, Samantha Morton.

"I still get a shock watching it, " he says. "I saw this guy do the stunt with the hot-air balloon. Even he was scared. He's actually tied to the balloon and he literally falls at full speed and then the gear kicks in and winds up to slow it down."

The screenplay for Enduring Love is elegantly structured by McEwan, in contrast to the sense of lives falling apart that imbues the movie. "Roger wouldn't start shooting until the script was ready, yet a lot of what we did was improvised. . . You can't do that if you have a bad script. With a really good script, you can sort of forget it and react with each other."

Daniel has just finished shooting The Jacket . . . starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley . . . John Maybury's thriller love story about an institutionalised Gulf War veteran. "I'm a nutter in a hospital, " he says. "I can't seem to get away from obsessive characters."

None of the characters he plays worries him as much as real-life politicians like George Bush and where he might lead America next. "We do like to be led, don't we, " he says. "We're pack animals. Without proper leadership we feel lost. That's the danger."

[Lu]

Thanks Aragorn, here are some really great quotes in this one.

On love and science:

"I'll need another hundred years, and I'd still only be scratching the surface," he tells me. "It's an exploration that you could never get to the bottom of."

His character in Enduring Love claims that love is just biology. "But if love is a genetic mistake, how wonderful and beautiful is that?" says Daniel. "Science destroys faith in anything. But it's always screwed up by some irritating fact. You do stupid things, in all sorts of wonderful ways.

On God...
I never pegged him as a spiritual person AT ALL. I wonder if he still feels this way?

"There's just as much chance that there is a God as that there isn't. So why not veer in the direction of God and say that there is a divine, there is some greater force, whatever it is, even if it comes from within? You have to embrace the likelihood of it, otherwise life isn't worth living."

He talks all the time about this. I wonder what he feels his own shortcomings are? He seems to REALLY be interested in that "monster within" that we all have.

"Fallibility is what makes people interesting, or how they deal with that fallibility, and whether they can find their true self when they are feeling weak or cornered."