M If you carry a double-O number, it means you're licenced to kill, not get killed.
Played by Bernard Lee 
Dr. No (1962) · 32 quotes
Dr. No (1962) · 32 quotes
Tied for 4th most-quoted character in Dr. No (1962): in 3 of its 32 quotes
Most scenes with: James Bond (2)
Scenes with M
3 scenes M 
Major Boothroyd [to M, referring to Bond's Baretta]
Nice and light... in a lady's handbag.
M Any comment, 007?
I disagree, sir. I've carried the Baretta for ten years, and I've never missed with it.
M No, but it jammed on you last job, and you spent six months in hospital in consequence. When you carry a 00 number, you have a license to kill, not get killed. Furthermore, since I've been head of MI7 [sic - MI6] there's been a forty percent drop in casualties, and I want to keep it that way. From now on you carry the Walther... unless you'd rather return to standard intelligence duties.
No sir,I would not.
M [to Boothroyd]
Show him, Armourer.
Major Boothroyd [to Bond]
Walther PPK, 7.65 millimeter, with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. The American CIA swear by them.
Good evening, sir.
M It happens to be 3 a.m. When do you sleep, 007?
Never on the firm's time, sir.
