A character in The World Is Not Enough (1999)

James Bond quotes from The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Pierce Brosnan

Most-quoted character in The World Is Not Enough (1999): in 12 of its 14 quotes
Most scenes with: Renard (3), Dr. Christmas Jones (3), Q (2)

Scenes with James Bond

12 scenes
Miss Moneypenny

James! Have you brought me a souvenir from your trip? Chocolates? An engagement ring?

James Bond

I thought you might enjoy one of these.

Miss Moneypenny
[gives Miss Moneypenny a cigar tube]

How romantic. I know exactly where to put that.

James Bond
[throws the cigar tube in the bin]

Oh Moneypenny, the story of our relationship: close, but no cigar.

Q

I've always tried to teach you two things. First, never let them see you bleed.

James Bond

And the second?

Q

Always have an escape plan. [his final lines in the series]

James Bond
[after Q introduces Bond to his successor]

If you're Q, does that make him R?

R

Ah yes, the legendary 007 wit, or at least half of it.

James Bond

Expecting Davidov? He caught a bullet instead of the plane. [grabs Renard and holds him at gunpoint] Get off and keep your mouth shut!

You can't kill me. I'm already dead.

James Bond

Not dead enough for me.

You could show a little gratitude. I did spare your life at the banker's office. That's right; I couldn't kill you, you were working for me. You delivered the money, killed King and now you've brought me the plane.

James Bond

What's your plan for the bomb?!

You first. Or could it be you don't have a plan?

James Bond

That bomb will never leave this room!

Neither will you. How sad…to be threatened by a man who can't grasp what he's involved in.

James Bond

Revenge is not hard to fathom for a man who believes in nothing.

And what do you believe in? Preservation of capital?

[Renard pulls away from Bond]

Go ahead. Shoot me. I welcome it. My men will hear the shot and kill you.

James Bond

And the firefight will bring down half the army from above.

But when a certain phone call isn't made in twenty minutes, Elektra dies.

James Bond

You're bluffing.

She's beautiful, isn't she? You should have had her before, when she was innocent. How does it feel to know that I broke her in for you?

James Bond
[Bond gets angry and pistol-whips Renard across the forehead. Renard falls to the ground] [as he puts the silencer on his P99]

I usually hate killing an unarmed man. Cold-blooded murder is a filthy business.

A man tires of being executed.

James Bond

But in your case, I feel nothing, just like you.

Do you wanna explain why you did that? I could have stopped that bomb! You almost killed us!

James Bond

I did kill us. She thinks we're dead and she thinks she got away with it.

Do you want to put that in English for those of us who don't speak spy? Who's she?

James Bond

Elektra King.

Well, why would she blow up her own pipeline?

James Bond

It makes her look innocent. The explosion covers up the theft of the plutonium... and they make it look like a terrorist attack.

[takes a tin of plutonium out of her bag]

But why leave this half?

James Bond

So there's enough to spread around to cover up for the part that they did take.

But what are they gonna do with the other half? Its not enough to make a nuclear bomb.

James Bond

You're the scientist; you tell me.

I don't know..but the world's greatest terrorist running around with 6 kilos of weapons-grade plutonium can't be good. I have to get it back, or somebody's gonna have my ass.

James Bond

First things first.

James Bond

What business do you have with Elektra King?

Zukovsky

I thought you were the one giving her the business.

Elektra King

I could have given you the world.

James Bond

The world is not enough.

Elektra King

Foolish sentiment.

James Bond

Family motto.

James Bond
[pointing a gun at Elektra]

Call him off. I won't ask again. Call him off. CALL HIM OFF!

Elektra
[says into the walkie-talkie]

Renard. [to Bond] You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.

[from the walkie-talkie]

Yes?

Elektra

Dive! Bo-- [Bond shoots her and she falls into her bed, dead]

James Bond
[To M as she enters the room]

I never miss.

James Bond
[Bond and Renard battle in the submarine]

You would commit suicide for her [Elektra]?

You forget, I'm already dead!

James Bond

Haven't you heard? So is she!

[stunned]

You're lying…rrraaagh! LIAR!!

James Bond
[Bond traps Renard]

She's waiting for you! [twists a knob and impales Renard with his own plutonium fuel rod]

James Bond
[last lines] [in bed with Jones]

I was wrong about you.

Yeah, how so?

James Bond

I thought Christmas only comes once a year.

R

Now, I daresay, 007, that you've met your match with this machine.

James Bond
[Putting on some nearby shades, that are really x-ray glasses]

Yeah? New model, improved specs?

R

I thought you were on the Inactive roster; some kind of injury?

James Bond

Yes, well, we'll see about that. So...

R

As I was saying, the very latest in interception countermeasures. Titanium armor, a multi-tasking heads-up display, and six beverage cup holders. All in all, rather stocked.

Q

"Fully loaded," I think is the term.

R

I think–

Q

You're not here to think, you're here to do what I tell you. Now, go put on the coat and demonstrate it for 007.

R

But of course. Now, watch closely, please, 007. [Puts on the snow jacket] The right arm goes in the right sleeve, thus, and the left arm in the left sleeve, thus. Now, note closely, please: pockets, poppers, and zipper. Take the lower part of the zipper, and insert it into the–

Q
[Q and Bond give a look to each other]

Oh, pull the tag! [Pulls a tag on the front of the jacket]

R

Oh! But you said–! [An inflatable self-closing ball inflates out of the back of the jacket, then wraps around R. He falls and rolls around blindly, stuck in the ball] Oooh! Q! Ooof!

James Bond

He seems well-suited for the job. [Q chuckles and goes to a nearby platform] Now, you're not retiring anytime soon...are you?

Q

Now, pay attention 007. I've always tried to teach you two things. First, never let them see you bleed.

Bond

And the second?

Q

Always have an escape plan. [presses button and the platform lowers itself, and Q, into the floor]

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