Memorable Quotes from Ben Whishaw
10 quotesCommunication Between Bond and Madeline
Q
Oh God. It's for Madeline.
Bond
It's alright Q. It's all alright. Will you put Madeline on please?
Q
Yes of course. How stupid of me.
Madeline
James?
Bond
Madeline...
Madeline
I'm here. Where are you? Is it done? James?
[Bond hesitates to respond, completely exhausted.]
Bond
Yes, yes, yes... He's dead. Are you both there?
Bond
No. Um... I'm not gonna make it.
Madeline
What?
[sorrowful at what he just said]
Bond
Um...
Madeline
No, you promised.
Bond
Now, Madeline...
[resumes climbing and finally ascends to the top of the control room, peeking out of a hatch that overlooks the island.]
Madeline
Just get off that island. I know you can do this. Everything's good now! There's no one left to hurt us...
Bond
Madeline... You have made... The most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Perfect. Because she came from you.
[stares out into the sunset, trying to catch his breath.; stumbles out of the hatch to see that the island's silo doors are open, ensuring the missiles will destroy the nanobots inside Safin's lair.]
Madeline
Oh, god. The vial... You've been poisoned!
Bond
Yes.
Madeline
There must be a way. There must be a way... We just need more time! If we only had more time...!
Bond
{{W|We Have All the Time in the World|You have all the time in the world.}}
Madeline
I love you.
Bond
I love you too.
Madeline
She does have your eyes.
Bond
I know. I know...
[looks up as the missiles go on terminal guidance, breaking off into fragments like fireworks. In his final moments, he is dignified and composed.; The missiles hit the island and Bond watches the first explosion before a second hit obscures Bond entirely.]
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Unconditional Love and Mutual Affection
August
Ona! I will always love you.
Woman on the Path
She loves you too, August.
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Navigating the Risks of Young Masculinity
Salome
Why would boys of 13 and 14 be left behind? Why wouldn't they leave with us?
Agata
Surely, we don't have to be afraid of the boys of this age.
Ona
August, you're the boys teacher. What is your feeling about this? Do boys of that age pose a risk to our girls and women?
August
Yes. Possibly. Boys of 13 or 14 are capable of causing great damage to girls and women. And to each other. It is a brash age. They are possessed of reckless urges, physical exuberance, intense curiosity that often results in injury. Unbridled emotion, including deep tenderness and empathy, and not quite enough experience or brain development to fully understand or appreciate the consequences of their words or actions. They are like the yearlings. Young, awkward, gleeful, powerful. They're tall, muscular, sexually inquisitive creatures, with little impulse control, but they are children. They are children and they can be taught. I'm a two-bit schoolteacher, a failed farmer, and above all a believer. And I believe that with guidance, firm love and patience, these boys are capable of relearning their roles as males in the colony. I believe in what the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thought were the cardinal rules of early education. To work by love and so generate love. To habituate the mind to intellectual accuracy and truth. To excite imaginative power. He said, Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love. I believe the boys should be allowed to leave with the women... Providing the women choose to leave.
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Navigating Risks in Intelligence Operations
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
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.
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Navigating the Chaos of Rush Hour
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.
James Bond
The train's leaving. Do I get on the train?
Q
Don't get on the train, I'm not sure he's on it. Give us a minute.
[hesitant.]
James Bond
Do I get on the train?
[impatient.]
Q
Bond?
James Bond
What?
Q
Get on the train.
Man at Tube Station
He's keen to get home.
James Bond
Open the door, please!
[to train conductor.]
James Bond
Open. The door!
James Bond
Health and Safety. Carry on.
Q
Where are you?
James Bond
Take a wild guess, Q.
[moving through the carriages.]
Q
He's in disguise now. He's dressed as a policeman.
James Bond
Of course he is.
[sarcastic.]
Q
Where's he going? Where's he going?
[tracking the train's path, muttering.]
James Bond
He's going for M. Tell Tanner - get her out of there.
[realising.]
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Expectations of Modern Gadgets in Bond's World
James Bond
A gun and a radio. It's not exactly Christmas, is it?
[on receiving his equipment from Q.]
Q
Were you expecting ]? We don't really go in for that anymore.
[[w:GoldenEye|an exploding pen]
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A Humorous Exchange About Alcohol Preferences
Clinic Barman
Can I get you something, sir?
James Bond
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[[w:Martini (cocktail)|Vodka martini]
Clinic Barman
I'm sorry, we don't serve alcohol.
James Bond
I'm already starting to love this place...
[''Sarcastically'']
Q
He'll have the prolytic digestive enzyme shake.
[''Approaching the bar from Bond's left'']
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Reflection on Change and Duty
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. I'm your new Quartermaster.
[Bond reacts and sits back down.]
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 ].
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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. Q.
[Beat; offers his hand.]
Q
007.
[shakes his hand.]
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A Tribute to Time and Life
Mallory / M
Very hard to know what to say. But I thought we should gather, and remember.
Mallory
And I... I thought this was appropriate: ] book] "The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
[quoting a [[w:Jack London|Jack London; sets the book down, grabs a glass of his own and stands. Tanner begins a circle-wide toast.]
Tanner
To James.
Nomi
James.
Q
James.
Moneypenny
James.
Mallory
James... Right. Back to work.
[They all drink to his memory.; clinks the glass on the table.]
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A Calculated Trap Unfolds for Bond
Q
If you're through that door, you should be in the Tube.
James Bond
I'm in the Tube.
[deadpan]
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. It won't open.
[he tries the door handle]
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?! No, it's stuck. Oh good. There's a train coming.
[he tries again.; a rumble is heard, and Bond looks along the tracks]
Q
Hmm. That's vexing.
James Bond
I'm through.
Q
Told you. We've alerted security. Police are on their way.
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