Skyfall Quotes

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 I'll do my best.

Kincade What did you say you did for a living?

Eve I may have a shot. It's not clean. Repeat, I do not have a clean shot.

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 Take the shot.

M I said, take the shot!

Eve I can't, I may hit Bond!

M Take the bloody shot!

Eve Agent down.

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.

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 Forty. Did she tell you the psychologist cleared you for duty?

James Bond Yes.

Raoul Silva No. No. "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? Ooh. See what she's done to you?

James Bond Well, she never tied me to a chair.

Raoul Silva Her loss.

James Bond 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… Or eat everyone else. Ah, you're trying to remember your training now - what's the regulation to cover this? Well, first time for everything, yes?

James Bond What makes you think this is my first time?

Raoul Silva Oh, Mr. Bond!

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.

James Bond Do I get on the train?

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!

James Bond Open. The door!

James Bond Health and Safety. Carry on.

Q Where are you?

James Bond Take a wild guess, Q.

Q He's in disguise now. He's dressed as a policeman.

James Bond Of course he is.

Q Where's he going? Where's he going?

James Bond He's going for M. Tell Tanner - get her out of there.

James Bond The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives?

Sévérine It's not too late. We could turn back now.

James Bond I wouldn't be so sure.

M Chairman, ministers, today I've repeatedly heard how irrelevant my department has become. Why do we need agents, the 00 section? Isn't it all rather quaint? Well, I suppose I see a different world than you do, and the truth is that what I see frightens me. I'm frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us. They do not exist on a map, they aren't nations. They are individuals. And look around you - who do you fear? Can you see a face, a uniform, a flag? No, our world is not more transparent now, it's more opaque! It's in the shadows - that's where we must do battle. So before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves - how safe do you feel? Just one more thing to say. My late husband was a great lover of poetry, and um - I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. And here today, I remember this, I think, from ]: "We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

M Where the hell have you been?

James Bond Enjoying death. 007 reporting for duty.

M Why didn't you call?

James Bond You didn't get the postcard? You should try it sometime. Get away from it all. It really lends perspective.

M Ran out of drink where you were, did they?

James Bond What was it you said? Take the bloody shot.

M I made a judgment call.

James Bond You should have trusted me to finish the job.

M It was a possibility of losing you or the certainty of losing all those other agents. I made the only decision I could and you know it.

James Bond I think you lost your nerve.

M What are you expecting? A bloody apology? You know the rules of the game. You've been playing it long enough. We both have.

James Bond Maybe too long.

M Speak for yourself.

James Bond Ronson didn't make it, did he?

M No.

James Bond So this is it. We're both played out.

M If you believed that, why did you come back?

James Bond Good question.

M Because we're under attack. And you know we need you.

Raoul Silva Hello James, welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk along it in an hour. But still, it was - it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait, and the rats would come for the coconut, and... ...they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you've trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, and one by one... ...they start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what - do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees. But now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.

James Bond A gun and a radio. It's not exactly Christmas, is it?

Q Were you expecting ]? We don't really go in for that anymore.

Raoul Silva Think on your sins.

Raoul Silva Everyone, listen to me! Don't you dare touch her! She's MINE!

Raoul Silva You're smaller then I remember.

M Whereas I barely remember you at all.

Raoul Silva It's strange; for me, it just feels like yesterday. Are you surprised?

M Not particularly, but then you always were a slippery one.

Raoul Silva Maybe that's why you liked me so much.

M You flatter yourself.

Raoul Silva No remorse. Just as I had imagined.

M Regret is unprofessional.

Raoul Silva Regret is unprofessional?" ] kept me for five months in a room with no air. They tortured me and I protected your secrets. I protected you. But they made me suffer and suffer and suffer. Until I realized, it was you who betrayed me. You betrayed me. So I had only one thing left: my cyanide capsule in my back left molar. You remember, don't you? So, I broke the tooth and bit into the capsule. It burned all of my insides, but I didn't die. Life clung to me like a disease. And then I understood why I had survived. I needed to look into your eyes one last time.

M Well, I hope it was worth it. Mr. Silva, you're going to be transferred to Belmarsh Prison, where you will be remanded in custody, until the Crown Prosecution Service deem you fit to stand trial-

Raoul Silva Say my name. Say it. My real name. I know you remember it.

M Your name is on the memorial wall of the very building you attacked. I will have it struck off. Soon, your past will be as non-existent as your future. I'll never see you again.

Raoul Silva Do you know what it does to you? Hydrogen cyanide? Look upon your work, mother.

Kincade Welcome to ].

James Bond The latest thing from Q Branch. It's called a radio.

Kincade The night I told him his parents had died, he hid in here for two days. When he did come out, he wasn't a boy anymore.

James Bond Some men are coming to kill us. We're going to kill them first.

M Orphans always make the best recruits.

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.

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. Skyfall.

James Bond Done.

Gareth Mallory This is going well.

James Bond I always hated this place.

Raoul Silva Do you see what comes of all this running around, Mr. Bond? All this jumping and fighting, it's exhausting! Relax. You need to relax... Ah well, mother's calling. I will give her a good-bye kiss for you.

Eve Cut-throat razor. How very traditional.

James Bond Well, I like to do some things the old-fashioned way.

Eve Sometimes the old ways are the best.

M Too many people are dying because of me.

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. 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 Ah, 007. It's this way.

James Bond In your defense, a moving target is much harder to hit.

Eve Then you'd better keep moving.

Raoul Silva Not such a clever boy.

M Well I'm not hiding in there, if that's your brilliant plan.

James Bond We're changing vehicles. The problem with company cars is they have trackers.

M Well, I suppose that's completely inconspicuous.

James Bond Get in.

M It's not very comfortable, is it?

James Bond You gonna complain all the way?

M Oh, go on then, eject me. See if I care.

M Where are we going?

James Bond Back in time. Somewhere we'll have the advantage.

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.

Q 007. 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 ].

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.

Q 007.

M Oh to hell with dignity, I'll go when the job is done.

Q If you're through that door, you should be in the Tube.

James Bond 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. 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?! No, it's stuck. Oh good. There's a train coming.

Q Hmm. That's vexing.

James Bond I'm through.

Q Told you. We've alerted security. Police are on their way.