Timothy Dalton Quotes

Timothy Dalton is a Welsh-born English actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill , as well as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre , Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett , and Simon Skinner in Hot Fuzz .

✵ 21. March 1944
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Famous Timothy Dalton Quotes

“It was a remarkable time of my life. I don’t think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. I have no regrets about doing it at all.”

On playing Bond. [Timothy Dalton Reflects On 007, 2007-02-19, http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/dalton_hot_fuzz.php3?t=&s=, MI6 - The Home of James Bond, 2007-02-21]
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“The question of what is good acting has got to be paramount in order to keep developing. If you cease to think about it, you cease to develop. There's the showy style and the acting that doesn't look like acting. I go for the latter.”

On acting. [Several Interviews with Timothy Dalton on his 007 portrayal, including ‘Licence to Act: Timothy Dalton Uses James Bond To Get What He Wants’ by Marshall Fine, taken from ‘Lifestyle’ magazine, 11 July 1989., http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, 2000-03-04].
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“If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?”

On fame. [Several Interviews with Timothy Dalton on his 007 portrayal, including ‘Timothy Dalton Won’t Let Bond Role Change His Career by Susan King of the ‘Los Angeles Herald Examiner’, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, 2000-03-04].
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“Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!”

On the land of his birth. [Several Interviews with Timothy Dalton on his 007 portrayal, including Introducing Timothy Dalton by Glenn Fuller in Prevue Magazine., http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, 2000-03-04].
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“He's terrific. I think [Casino Royale] is a huge step forward - a leap forward.”

On Casino Royale. [Timothy Dalton Reflects On 007, 2007-02-19, http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/dalton_hot_fuzz.php3?t=&s=, MI6 - The Home of James Bond, 2007-02-21]
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“This is a film that really inhabits the proper world of James Bond. I mean, James Bond lives in a world that is violent and dangerous.”

On The Living Daylights, reported in Edward Gross, His Name was Bond, James Bond: Timothy Dalton on the World of 007 http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm.

“I don't believe Bond is superman, a cardboard cut out or two-dimensional. He's got to be a human being. He’s got to be identifiable, and that's what I'm trying to be… It's not a spoof, it's not light, it's not jokey.”

On his version of James Bond, reported in Edward Gross, His Name was Bond, James Bond: Timothy Dalton on the World of 007 http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm.

“Roger can climb out of a pocket aeroplane and give a glib remark, I can't”

On the difference between his and Roger Moore’s portrayal of Bond. [Several Interviews with Timothy Dalton on his 007 portrayal, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm, 2000-03-04].
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