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Thank you @barryt007! I have a bit of a thing for languages. After French, English, German and Italian I wanted to go for a Slavic language. I have always been interested in Prague and the Czech Republic so I had to go with that one.
This is one of my favourite lines from Dalton. It's a simple line on paper, and there's arguably very little special about it, but the way he delivers it......phwoar. All kinds of emotions there. Anger, frustration, but also clarity of purpose from Bond - the complications of the situation are all starting to make sense to him. Really bloody good.
“Saunders. Thanks.”
Love the way their relationship evolves in the course of the film. First irritated by that typical civil servant bureaucracy and later heartfelt sympathy for that same civil servant doing him an off-the-record favour. Excellent stuff and well-played by Dalton and Wheatley.
The one I've used most out of context is playing up Whitaker's dialogue as if he were a cranky Col. Sanders or something. I love to use "Lies spread by my competitors!" as a defense. I did it so much in college that people demanded to know where it came from, I show them TLD and they stand up exclaiming "that's not the way you say it!"
Imagine putting on a stock, super stylized fast southern accent and then say :If Pushkin is still alive on the last day of the conference-kill him!"
The "stuff my orders" scene with Saunders is literally the purest 007 moment outside of the OHMSS PTS. Good god Dalton nails it so perfectly and I'm sure Maibaum was delighted to get that moment onscreen.
Other favorites off the top of my head that aren't just great one liners but perfect moments:
-Game's up mate, you're dead! (Man is then killed)
-If only I could find a real man
-You're bloody late --We have time
-Turn off the lights
-Why me? --He's under the impression that you're the best.
-Enough time to make strawberry jam of him!
-You missed-deliberately!
-First place they'd look. --But my escape route! -Scrubbed.
-Lose them.
-Sorry old boy, Section 26 Paragraph 5. Need to know. Sure you'll understand.
-The sniper was a woman. --I noticed.
-We have a pipeline to the west...
-Our man here
-Our engineers have spent months perfecting this. --How many times have you done this before? -You're the first!
-Looks like it's a dead end here
-Death to spies minister
-Bloody Yank
-Flu!
-KGB!
-Who's that for? --You!
-THE ENTIRE M OFFICE SCENE
-Surgeons...they cut away society's dead flesh.
-Surprise me!
-You don't meet to many normal people in this business Q. What do I do to blow up the room? Whistle "God Save the Queen?"
-Just taking the Aston Martin for a quick spin Q
-I dropped the gun in the river
-It was exquisite
-We have about ten minutes if we're lucky before they've discovered what's happened...No way!
-Why didn't you learn the violin?
-It must be an atmospheric anomaly
-They're looking for a foreign car...a man and a woman...and a cello.
-Salt corrosion
-I had a few optional extras installed
-Time to leave!
-Brace yourself
-We've nothing to declare!
-Isn't that--the cello girl.
-I've nothing to lose but my pension.
-Bad accident back there
-Yes...I got the message
-You should have brought lilies
-If I trusted Koskov we wouldn't be talking
-Then I must die
-Let's talk shop
-You remembered
-Because I was the man sent to kill you
-I've been such a fool--we both have
-THE ENTIRE PLANE CONVERSATION BETWEEN BOND AND KOSKOV
-You will not be hung in the morning...you will be SHOT
-You can tell Allah when you see him
-Probably the best line of the film: Kara we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan.--At least we're together. -Terrific.
-I tell them you no Russian. They no kill you now. --Now how about later? -- Don't worry they'll save you for the harem.
-I hope he's not invited to dinner.
-THE ENTIRE SCENE WITH KAMRAN AND THE BEDROOM SCENE WITH KARA culminating in: Back end of horse! --Are you calling me a horse's ass?
-What're you up to Kamran, selling dope?
-Perhaps...if nothing is done until the Russians pay up and leave
-HGTB
-To drop a bomb!
-Fasten your seatbelt!
-The restaurant in Karachi
-Pickett's Charge was up Cemetery Ridge not Little Round Top.
-Well, hell you can have him.
-You could have been a live rich man instead of a poor dead one.
-If the Russians don't get you the Americans will.
-Sorry to say your little popgun is no match for the latest in body armor.
-You've had your eight now i'll have my 80!
-Should have known you'd take refuge behind Wellington. You know he had to buy German mercenaries to beat Napoleon.
-He met his Waterloo
-She is a defector too. What should we do about her?
-You didn't think I would miss this performance did you?
Wow, I didn't expect to write that many. But I could go on and on. I've wound up even loving non-memorable standard lines in the original series or putting my own personal spin on them.
-Koskov
"Spare me your military pretensions."
-Pushkin to Whitaker
"Saunders...thanks."
-Bond
"I am in the dark as much as you are. Who do you believe: Koskov...or me?"
-Pushkin
"You're the first."
-Bond
"UHHH!"
-Koskov
Georgi: "Absolutely. Go ahead. I'm all yours! Heheheh!"
“Real reason? New directives.”
I chuckle everytime again.
-Oh... Good afternoon, Mr. Bond. You will need your usual suite?
-Not tonight, Hans. Something with a second bedroom.
-Shall I have some vodka martinis sent up?
-Shaken, not stirred.
-Of course.
Bond walking into the most exclusive Hotel in Vienna like he owns the place, and the Concierge greets him like his number 1 customer haha.
Immediately establishes that Bond must have a lot of history in that place.
So many great lines from The Living Daylights a select few would be:
Kara Milovy: You were fantastic. We're free.
James Bond: Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan.
General Georgi Koskov: I'm sorry, James. For you I have great affection, but we have an old saying: duty has no sweethearts.
James Bond: We have an old saying too, Georgi. And you're full of it.
James Bond: Get down on your knees. Put your hands behind your back.
Leonid Pushkin: You are professional. You do not kill without reason.
James Bond: 2 of our men are dead. Koskov's named you. Why should I disobey my orders?
Leonid Pushkin: I am in the dark as much as you. It is a question of trust. Who do you believe? Koskov, or me?
James Bond: If I trusted Koskov we wouldn't be talking. But as long as you're alive, we'll never know what he's up to.
Leonid Pushkin: Then I must die.
I think the above scene is one of the best in the series. Brilliant stuff.
James Bond: Relax Georgi. Our engineers have spent months perfecting this.
General Georgi Koskov: How many times have you done this before?
James Bond: You're the first!
Saunders: Saunders. Head of Section "V" Vienna. You're *bloody* late. This is a mission, not a fancy dress ball.
James Bond: We have time.
Kara Milovy: Did you hear?
James Bond: Hear from Georgi?
James Bond: Yes, I *got* the message.
James Bond: There are a few things I'd like to check out first, sir. That sniper, for instance.
M: Yes. I've read Saunders report. You jeopardized the entire mission to avoid shooting a beautiful girl.
James Bond: Not exactly, sir. I took a split second decision. It was instinct
Q: Stun gas! Effective range - oh, about five feet. Disorientates any normal person for about - oh, 30 seconds.
James Bond: You don't find too many normal people in this business, Q.
Felix Leiter[: Just what the hell are you trying to do, 007? Start World War III?
I know the above is a genuine favourite amongst many fans. ;)
James Bond: Cheer up, Saunders. The operation's a success. And officially, its still yours.
Saunders: I have no intention of leaving it at that, 007! I'm reporting to M that you deliberately missed. Your orders were to kill that sniper!
James Bond: *Stuff* my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn't know one end of her rifle from the other. Go ahead. Tell M what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it. Whoever she was, it must have scared the living daylights out of her.
And so we move on to Timothy Dalton's second and sadly, final James Bond outing...
Licence To Kill
I always thought of Saunders as an annoying git, but have come to like the mutual...understanding (I was going to say respect but it's not quite that) they come to at the end.
Thanks for the correction, good one!
Fav Lines from LTK...
"I'm more of a problem eliminator."
"Yes sir!"
"So why don't you ask me?"
"Bless your heart!"
"What about the stingers?!?!"
Best character in the Movie, and has all the class, sophistication, cool confidence/arrogance, that Bond is supposed to have.
What did he promise you, his heart? Give her his heart!
There are worse things than dying hombre.
I want you to know this is nothing Personal, it's purely biznezz.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life!
Loyalty is more important to me than money.
You were very quiet when I was arrested. Remember, you're only president... for life.
Señor Bond, you got big cojones. You come here, to my place, without references, carrying a piece, throwing around a lot of money... but you should know something: nobody saw you come in, so nobody has to see you go out.
British agent. I knew it. You have class.
Launder it.
Don't worry it's only money.
I guess it's time to start cutting overhead.
"I love James so much." ;)
I almost put that one too! It's a small throwaway line, but I love the way Robert Davi delivers it. The Joe Butcher telethon is such a good fun front.
Agree Sanchez is my favourite villian in the series.
"Why don't you keep it ol' buddy" echoes back to Grant and "Old Man".
Then Sharkey's line to break the tension...
"What a waste. (glances at Bond and his stare) Of money!"
"If they hurry they just may catch the bastard." Michael Wilson's best delivery of a line right up there with ("consider him slimed" from TND).
"Are you carrying?" Bond flashes Pam his Walter. "tsk, tsk, tsk." (then shows Bond the shotgun under the table)
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"Very good. But I think I'm gonna be home soon, huh?"
'Very good', as in, "All that scumbag money will do me a bit of good here. Very good".
OR
"Great acting, Killifer!"
"If the bastards hurry, they just might be able to grab the bastard."
"Watch the bastard birdie, you bastard."
"We're Hong Kong Narcotic bastards, you bastard!"
LICENCE TO KUSS
Krest: "That's not my effing money. I swear."
"This is not a effing country club you bastard."
"What about the money, patrón?"
"Bastard it."
My ONLY gripe with it!