Skyfall (2012) quotes

View Quote Eve: [watches Bond shave] Cut-throat razor. How very traditional.
James Bond: [suggestively] Well, I like to do some things the old-fashioned way.
Eve: [smiles] Sometimes the old ways are the best.

View Quote Gareth Mallory: [now promoted to become the new head of MI6 as the new M] So, 007… [gives Bond his next assignment] Lots to be done. Are you ready to get back to work?
James Bond: With pleasure, M. With pleasure.

View Quote James Bond: [on receiving his equipment from Q.] A gun and a radio. It's not exactly Christmas, is it?
Q: Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for that anymore.

View Quote James Bond: You know, we've never been formally introduced.
Eve: Oh. Well, my name's Eve... Eve Moneypenny.
James Bond: I look forward to our time together, Miss Moneypenny.
Eve: Me, too. I'm sure we'll have one or two close shaves.

View Quote Raoul Silva: [on seeing that M is wounded, panicked] You're hurt. You're hurt! What have they done to you? What have they done to you? [puts his gun in her hand, and presses it to her head, and rests his head against hers, directly in the path of the gun] Free us both. With the same bullet. Do it. Do it. Only you can do it. Now do it. [he screams as Bond lobs a knife into his back. He turns and glares at Bond, groaning with impotent rage. He kneels onto the floor.]
James Bond: Last rat standing.
[Silva keels over dead]
M: 007, what took you so long?
James Bond: Well, I got into some deep water.
[M, succumbing to her wound, topples over. Bond cradles her in his arms]
M: I suppose it's too late to make a run for it?
James Bond: Well, I'm game if you are.
M: I did get one thing right.
[M dies. Bond embraces her corpse and Kincade, with despair, takes off his hat.]

View Quote Raoul Silva: Just look at you, barely held together by your pills and your drink.
James Bond: Don't forget my pathetic love of country.
Raoul Silva: You're still clinging to your faith in that old woman, when all she does is lie to you.
James Bond: She never lied to me.
Raoul Silva: No?
James Bond: No.
Raoul Silva: What did you score on your marksmanship evaluation?
James Bond: Seventy.
Raoul Silva: [laughs mockingly] Forty. Did she tell you the psychologist cleared you for duty?
James Bond: Yes.
Raoul Silva: No. No. [sighs, reads test results from a laptop] "Medical evaluation: Failed. Physical evaluation: Failed. Psychological evaluation: Alcohol and substance addiction indicated." Ooh! "Pathological rejection of authority based on unresolved childhood trauma. Subject is not approved for field duty and immediate suspension from service advised." What is this if not betrayal? She sent you after me, knowing you were not ready, knowing you would likely die. Mommy was very bad. Hmm? [he unbuttons Bond's shirt, inspecting the scar on his shoulder. Winces.] Ooh. See what she's done to you?
James Bond: Well, she never tied me to a chair.
Raoul Silva: [deadpan] Her loss. [he continues to probe at Bond's chest, suggestively.]
James Bond: [dubious] Are you sure this is about M?
Raoul Silva: It's about her. And you, and me. You see, we are the last two rats. We can either eat each other… [suggestive look] Or eat everyone else. Ah, you're trying to remember your training now - what's the regulation to cover this? [rests his hands on Bond's legs.] Well, first time for everything, yes?
James Bond: [unmoved] What makes you think this is my first time?
Raoul Silva: [playful] Oh, Mr. Bond!

View Quote Sévérine: It's not too late. We could turn back now.
James Bond: [eyes armed guards standing behind them menacingly] I wouldn't be so sure.

View Quote [at Q Branch, Q and Tanner try to create a false trail to lure Silva]
Q: It's a fine line. Make the breadcrumb too small, and he might miss it. Too big, and Silva will smell a rat.
Bill Tanner: Yes, but you'd think even Silva will be able to spot that.
Q: He's the only one who could.
[Tanner turns to see Mallory, his arm in a sling]
Tanner: Sir?
Q: Oh...
Gareth Mallory: What are you doing?
Q: We're just... monitoring.
Mallory: Creating a false tracking signal for Silva to follow.
Tanner: Well, sir, um...
Q: Well, no...
Mallory: Excellent thinking. Get him isolated. Send him on the A9, it's a direct route. You can monitor his progress more accurately and confirm it with the traffic cameras.
Tanner: But, uh... what if the PM finds out?
Mallory: Then we're all buggered. Carry on.

View Quote [At the National Gallery, Bond is sitting on an empty bench, looking at The Fighting Temeraire. A scruffy-haired young man wearing glasses approaches and sits right next to him. Bond looks at him in annoyance, not yet knowing that this is Q.]
Q: It always makes me feel a little melancholy - a grand old war ship, being ignominiously hauled away to scrap. The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?
James Bond: A bloody big ship. Excuse me. [rising to leave.]
Q: 007. [Bond reacts and sits back down.] I'm your new Quartermaster.
James Bond: You must be joking.
Q: Why, because I'm not wearing a lab coat?
James Bond: Because you still have spots.
Q: My complexion is hardly relevant.
James Bond: Your competence is.
Q: Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
James Bond: And youth is no guarantee of innovation.
Q: I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pyjamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.
James Bond: Oh, so why do you need me?
Q: Every now and then, a trigger has to be pulled.
James Bond: Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pyjamas. [Beat] Q. [offers his hand.]
Q: [shakes his hand.] 007.

View Quote [Bond and Eve meet for the first time since she accidentally shot him]
James Bond: I am sorry, but we have met before?
Eve: I am the one who should say sorry.
James Bond: It was only four ribs; some of the less vital organs. Nothing major. [he and Eve walk into a big room of the building.] Not enough excitement in Istanbul?
Eve: I've been reassigned. Temporary suspension from field work.
James Bond: Really?
Eve: Mm. Something to do with killing 007.
James Bond: Well, you gave it your best shot.
Eve: It was hardly my best shot.
James Bond: I'm not sure I can survive your best.
Eve: Doubt you'll get the chance.
Bond: Well, do me a favor, will you. If they do ever let you back out there, warn me first.
Eve: I'm assisting Gareth Mallory in the transition and then I'll be back in the field.
James Bond: It's what you want?
Eve: Yes, of course.
James Bond: It's not for everyone.
[Bill Tanner comes into the big room.]
Bill Tanner: [directing Bond into M's office] Ah, 007. It's this way.
James Bond: [to Eve.] In your defense, a moving target is much harder to hit.
Eve: Then you'd better keep moving.

View Quote [Bond and Patrice, an assassin, are fighting atop a train for possession of the stolen hard drive. As they emerge from a tunnel and onto a viaduct, Eve has them in the crosshairs of a rifle.]
Eve: I may have a shot. [beat.] It's not clean. Repeat, I do not have a clean shot.
[The train's whistle blares as it approach another tunnel.]
Eve: There's a tunnel ahead. I'm going to lose them.
M: Can you get into a better position?
Eve: Negative, there's no time.
M: [beat.] Take the shot.
[Eve hesitates.]
M: I said, take the shot!
Eve: I can't, I may hit Bond!
M: Take the bloody shot!
[Eve fires. Bond, hit, falls backwards from the train into the river below. Eve sees Patrice, still holding the hard drive, disappear into the tunnel. Back at MI6, there is a long silence.]
Eve: [on speaker-phone, solemn.] Agent down.

View Quote [Bond enters the interrogation room to take his psychological test]
Doctor Hall: I'd like to start with some simple word associations. Just tell me the first word that pops into your head. For example, I say, "Day" and you might say…
James Bond: Wasted.
Doctor Hall: All right. Gun?
James Bond: Shot.
Doctor Hall: Agent.
James Bond: Provocateur.
Doctor Hall: Woman?
James Bond: Provocatrix.
Doctor Hall: Heart?
James Bond: Target.
Doctor Hall: Bird?
James Bond: Sky.
Doctor Hall: M.
James Bond: Bitch.
[quick cut to M in the observation room, not amused]
Doctor Hall: Sunlight?
James Bond: Swim.
Doctor Hall: Moonlight?
James Bond: Dance.
Doctor Hall: Murder.
James Bond: Employment.
Doctor Hall: Country.
James Bond: England.
Doctor Hall: Skyfall. [Bond says nothing] Skyfall.
James Bond: Done. [walks out]
[M is not impressed.]
Gareth Mallory: [to M; sarcastically] This is going well.

View Quote [Bond is on a crowded platform at Temple Tube station, looking for Silva.]
James Bond: There's too many people, I can't see him.
Q: Welcome to rush hour on the Tube. Not something you'd know much about.
[Q spots something on one of the CCTV footage monitors - a policeman getting onto the Tube train.]
James Bond: The train's leaving. Do I get on the train?
Q: [hesitant.] Don't get on the train, I'm not sure he's on it. Give us a minute.
[Q enhances the footage he was just watching. The train starts to pull away, Bond still on the platform.]
James Bond: [impatient.] Do I get on the train?
[Q freezes the footage of the policeman turning to face the camera. It is Silva in disguise.]
Q: Bond?
James Bond: What?
Q: Get on the train.
[Bond chases after and jumps onto the end of the tube train, clinging onto the outer door. He runs past an old-looking man who is standing with his wife.]
Man at Tube Station: He's keen to get home.
James Bond: [to train conductor.] Open the door, please!
[The conductor just stares at him, baffled.]
James Bond: Open. The door!
[The conductor finally opens the door. Bond steps on board.]
James Bond: Health and Safety. Carry on.
Q: Where are you?
James Bond: [moving through the carriages.] Take a wild guess, Q.
Q: He's in disguise now. He's dressed as a policeman.
James Bond: [sarcastic.] Of course he is.
Q: [tracking the train's path, muttering.] Where's he going? Where's he going?
[Bond spots the route map on the inside wall of one of the carriages. The route leads to Westminster.]
James Bond: [realising.] He's going for M. Tell Tanner - get her out of there.

View Quote [Bond is practising hitting targets with his father's rifle with Kincade, the gamekeeper of Skyfall, the Bond family estate. Kincade does not know of Bond's employment or firearms training.]
Kincade: So who are we supposed to be fighting?
James Bond: No "we" in it, Kincade. This is not your fight.
Kincade: Try and stop me, you jumped-up little shit. Now remember what I taught you. Don't let it pull to the left.
James Bond: [deadpan] I'll do my best.
[Bond takes aim and fires twice. The targets, a pair of china teacups on a tree branch, are blown to smithereens. Bond pops the spent cartridges from the rifle.]
Kincade: What did you say you did for a living?

View Quote [Bond is pursuing an escaped Silva through London's underground train tunnels. Q is tracking him from MI6's reserve headquarters and communicating by radio.]
Q: If you're through that door, you should be in the Tube.
James Bond: [deadpan] I'm in the Tube.
Q: Bond, this isn't an escape, this was years in the planning. He wanted us to capture him, he wanted us to access his computer. It was all planned - blowing up HQ, knowing all the emergency protocols, knowing we'd retreat down here.
James Bond: I got all that. It's what he's got planned next that worries me.
Q: District line is the closest. There should be a service door on your left.
James Bond: Got it. [he tries the door handle] It won't open.
Q: Of course it will, put your back into it.
James Bond: Why don't you come down here and put your back into it?! [he tries again.] No, it's stuck. [a rumble is heard, and Bond looks along the tracks] Oh good. There's a train coming.
Q: Hmm. That's vexing.
[Bond tries to barge the door multiple times but will not open. He uses a pistol to shoot the door handle. The door opens and Bond slips into it.]
James Bond: I'm through.
Q: Told you. We've alerted security. Police are on their way.
[Bond continues to find Silva.]