The Quotable
Goldeneye
By Daniel Singer
Whether you’re
looking for answers to those hard-to-solve philosophical questions or if you
are simply in search of guidance in your everyday life, the 1995 smash hit, Goldeneye, has what you’re looking for.
Goldeneye on…
Sex
Xenia Onatopp: You don't need the gun.
James Bond: Well, that
depends on your definition of safe sex.
---
James Bond:
I must say, I've had a lovely evening.
Xenia Onatopp:
Well, once again the pleasure was all yours.
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Alec Trevelyan: Lovely girl. Tastes like
strawberries.
James Bond: I wouldn't
know.
Alec Trevelyan:
I would.
Friendship
Alec Trevelyan: You're late, 007.
James Bond: I had to
stop in the bathroom.
Alec Trevelyan:
Ready to save the world again?
James Bond: After you,
006.
---
Alec Trevelyan: So, we're back to where we
started, James. The friend or the mission?
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Alec Trevelyan: I set the timers for six minutes.
The same six minutes that you gave me. It's the least I could do for a friend.
Natalya Simonova: What does that mean?
James Bond: We have
three minutes.
---
Alec Trevelyan: What's the matter, James? No glib
remark? No pithy comeback?
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Jack Wade:
Let me guess this straight Jimmy - you shot him in the leg, you stole his car,
you took his girl. And now you want Valentin Zukovsky to set you up with Janus?
---
James Bond:
I trusted you, Alec.
Alec Trevelyan:
Trust? What a quaint idea.
Automotives
Caroline:
James, is it really necessary to drive quite so fast?
James Bond: More often
than you'd think.
---
Natalya Simonova: You
destroy every vehicle you get into?
James Bond: Standard
operating procedure.
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Q:
And this, I'm particularly proud of - behind the headlights, stinger missiles!
James Bond: Excellent,
just the thing for unwinding after a rough day at the office.
Q: Need I remind you,
007, that you have a license to kill, not to break traffic laws.
---
General Ourumov: Use the bumper! That's what it's
for!
Psychology
Alec Trevelyan: Oh, spare me the Freud, James. I
might as well ask if all those vodka martinis silence the screams of all the
men you've killed... or if you've found forgiveness in the arms of all those
willing women, for the dead ones you failed to protect?
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Caroline:
I know what you're doing. You're just trying to show off the size of your, err...
James Bond: Engine?
Caroline: Ego.
Confidence
Boris Grishenko: I am invincible!
Loyalty
Alec Trevelyan: For
James Bond: No. For me.
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James Bond:
Why?
Alec Trevelyan:
Hilarious question, particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled
all those dictators, undermined all those regimes, only to come home: 'Well
done, good job, but sorry, old boy, everything you risked your life and limb
for has changed.'
James Bond: It was the
job we were chosen for.
Alec Trevelyan:
Of course you'd say that, James Bond, her majesty's loyal terrier, defender of
the so-called faith.
Politics
James Bond:
Governments change... the lies stay the same.