Joe Don Baker Biography
Joe Don Baker (February 12, 1936 - May 7, 2025) was an American film actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, and CIA agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
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Joe Don Baker Quotes
A Casual Exchange Between Bond and Wade
Bond:
In London, April's a spring month.
Jack Wade:
Oh yeah? And what are you, the weatherman? I mean, for crying out loud... another stiff-ass Brit, with your secret codes and your passwords. One of these days you guys are gonna learn just to drop it. C'mon, my car's over there.
Bond:
After you.
Wade:
Thank you.
Bond:
Like you said, "Drop it".
Wade:
All right, in London April is a spring month, whereas in St. Petersburg we're freezing our butts off. Is that close enough for government work?
Bond:
No. Show me the rose.
Wade: [Bond shoves his gun into Wade; unbuckles his pants and shows him his rose tattoo with the name "Muffy"]
Please, no. Alright, alright, alright.
Bond:
Muffy?
Wade: [sticks out his hand]
Third wife. Jack Wade, CIA.
Bond: [shaking Wade's hand]
James Bond, stiff-ass Brit.
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Tension Between Characters Escalates in Confrontation
Claude Kersek:
You know, I've been in a real bad mood lately. Shame, ain't it? You know what you can do to brighten my mood?
Max Cady:
No.
Claude Kersek:
Get the hell out of here. I don't mean just this whole town, I mean the whole goddamned state. I don't wanna see you, I don't wanna hear you, and I don't wanna smell you. Now leave.
Max Cady:
Now, I like to-- Are you my friend?
Claude Kersek:
No, I'm not your friend.
Max Cady:
Oh, cause I thought maybe you were my friend, because I like to plan my comings and goings with friends. But if you're not my friend and you're planning my comings and goings, I'd call that presumptuous. In fact, I'd call it downright rude.
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