Skyfall Quotes

Skyfall

Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

7.8/10

PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 9 November 2012 (USA)

Raoul Silva: [Silva unbuttons Bond's shirt and peels back the shirt to expose the scar tissue where Bond removed the bullet]Ooh! See what she's done to you.
James Bond: [suspicious]Well, she never tied me to a chair.
Raoul Silva: Her loss. [Silva begins caressing Bond's neck]
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... mmm... or eat everyone else. [Silva strokes Bond's neck]
Raoul Silva: How you're trying to remember your training now. [Silva smiles]
Raoul Silva: What's the regulation to cover this? [Silva strokes both of Bond's upper legs]
Raoul Silva: Well, first time for everything. [Bond smiles]
Raoul Silva: Yes?
James Bond: What makes you think this is my first time?
Raoul Silva: [sits back]Oh, Mr Bond. All the physical stuff - so dull, so dull.

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[last lines]Gareth Mallory: So, 007... Lots to be done. Are you ready to get back to work?
James Bond: With pleasure, M. With pleasure.

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Kincade: So who is it we're 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.

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Gareth Mallory: The opposition has taken the position that we're a bunch of antiquated bloody idiots fighting a war we don't understand and can't possibly win.
M: Look, three of my agents are dead already, don't you involve me in politics now...
Gareth Mallory: The Prime Minister has ordered an inquiry. You're expected to attend.
M: Attend in stocks at midday? Who's old-fashioned now?
Gareth Mallory: For Christ's sake, listen to yourself! We're a democracy, and we're responsible to the people we're supposed to defend! We can't keep fighting in the shadows, there are no more shadows!
M: You don't get this, do you? Whoever's behind this, whoever's doing this, he knows us! He's one of us! He comes from the same place as Bond, a place you say doesn't exist: the shadows!

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James Bond: Not enough excitement in Istanbul?
Eve: I've been reassigned. Temporary suspension from field work.
James Bond: Really?
Eve: Mmm. Something to do with killing 007.
James Bond: Well, you gave it your best shot.
Eve: That was hardly my best shot.
James Bond: I'm not sure I could survive your best.
Eve: I doubt you'll get the chance.

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James Bond: Oh good, here comes a train.

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James Bond: [about getting shot]In your defense, a moving target is harder to hit.
Eve: Then you'd better keep moving.

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Husband at Tube Station: [after Bond has leapt onto a moving underground train]He's keen to get home.

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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.

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M: 007, what the hell are you doing? Are you kidnapping me?
James Bond: That would be one way of looking at it.

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James Bond: [dodging an explosion]Was that for me?
Raoul Silva: [laughing]No, but that is. [a subway train crashes after Bond]

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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.

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James Bond: What a waste of good scotch.

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James Bond: [as Silva arrives at Skyfall in a helicopter while playing loud music]Always got to make an entrance.

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James Bond: The latest thing from Q branch; it's called a radio.

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M: [last line before opening credits]Take the bloody shot!
Eve: Agent down.

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M: 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 a memorial wall of the very building you attacked. I will have it struck off. Soon your past will be as nonexistent as your future. I'll never see you again.

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James Bond: [as Silva falls]Last rat standing.

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Eve: She's ready for you.
James Bond: I'm sorry, have we met before?
Eve: I'm the one who should say sorry.
James Bond: It was only four ribs. Some of the less vital organs. Nothing major.

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Eve: She's pretty.
James Bond: Now, now.
Eve: If you like that sort of thing.
James Bond: I'll keep you posted. [puts his earpiece into her glass]

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James Bond: [after a scene with heavy shooting]Are you hurt?
M: Only my pride is hurt.

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Raoul Silva: [on seeing that M is wounded]You're hurt. You're hurt! What have they done to you? What have they done to you? [puts his gun in her hand]
Raoul Silva: Free us both. With the same bullet. Only you can do it. Do it! Do it!

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SÚvÚrine: Would you mind if I ask you a business question?
James Bond: Depends on the question.
SÚvÚrine: It has to do with - death.
James Bond: A subject in which you're well-versed.
SÚvÚrine: And how would you know that?
James Bond: Only a certain kind of woman wears a backless dress with a Beretta 70 strapped to her thigh.
SÚvÚrine: One can never be too careful when handsome men in tuxedos carry Walthers.

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M: I suppose... It's too late to make a run for it?
James Bond: Well, I'm game if you are.
M: I did get one thing right. [dies]

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M: I suppose it's too late to make a run for it?
James Bond: Well, I'm game if you are.

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SÚvÚrine: Be careful what you wish for...

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SÚvÚrine: How much do you know about fear?
James Bond: All there is.
SÚvÚrine: Not like this. Not like him.

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James Bond: [Silva's men are approaching]You ready?
Kincade: I was ready before you were born, son.

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Raoul Silva: [about M]Everyone, listen to me. Don't you dare touch her. She's mine!

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James Bond: [the fat bodyguard is about to be bitten by a komodo dragon, failed to pull the trigger to James Bond]Good luck with that.

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