Skyfall Quotes

Skyfall is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Skyfall stopped airing in 1970.

It features Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli as producer, Thomas Newman in charge of musical score, and Roger Deakins as head of cinematography.

Skyfall is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Skyfall is 143 minutes long. Skyfall is distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

The cast includes: Ben Whishaw as Q, Judi Dench as James Bond, Judi Dench as M, Ralph Fiennes as Gareth Mallory, Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, Albert Finney as Kincade, Rory Kinnear as Tanner, and Bérénice Marlohe as Sévérine.

Skyfall Quotes

Albert Finney as Kincade

• (Albert Finney) "So who is it we're supposed to be fighting?"
• (Judi Dench) "No "we" in it. Kincade. This is not your fight."
• (Albert Finney) "Try and stop me, you jumped-up little s***."

• (Albert Finney) "James. James Bond."
• (Judi Dench) "Good God. He's still alive."
• (Albert Finney) "Hah, it's nice to see you, too."

• (Albert Finney) "Welcome to Scotland."

Ben Whishaw as Q

• (Ben Whishaw) "It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. Grand old war ship. being ignominiously haunted away to scrap -- The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?"
• (Judi Dench) "A bloody big ship. Excuse me."
• (Ben Whishaw) "007. I'm your new Quartermaster."
• (Judi Dench) "You must be joking."
• (Ben Whishaw) "Why, because I'm not wearing a lab coat?"
• (Judi Dench) "Because you still have spots."
• (Ben Whishaw) "My complexion is hardly relevant."
• (Judi Dench) "Your competence is."
• (Ben Whishaw) "Age is no guarantee of efficiency."
• (Judi Dench) "And youth is no guarantee of innovation."
• (Ben Whishaw) "Well, I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field."
• (Judi Dench) "Oh, so why do you need me?"
• (Ben Whishaw) "Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled."
• (Judi Dench) "Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas. Q."
• (Ben Whishaw) "007."

• (Ben Whishaw) "Why are the doors opening?"

• (Ben Whishaw) "It's a fine line. If the breadcrumb's too small, then he might miss it. Too big, and Silva will smell a rat."
• (Rory Kinnear) "Yes, but you'd think even Silva will be able to spot that."
• (Ben Whishaw) "He's the only one who could."
• (Rory Kinnear) "Sir."
• (Ben Whishaw) "Oh."
• (Ralph Fiennes) "What are you doing?"
• (Ben Whishaw) "We're just -- monitoring."
• (Ralph Fiennes) "Creating a false tracking signal for Silva to follow."
• (Rory Kinnear) "Well, sir, um --"
• (Ben Whishaw) "Well, no --"
• (Ralph Fiennes) "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."
• (Ben Whishaw) "But, uh -- what if PM finds out?"
• (Ralph Fiennes) "Then we're all buggered. Carry on."

• (Ben Whishaw) "Where are you?"
• (Judi Dench) "Take a wild guess, Q."

• (Ben Whishaw) "There are only about six people in the world who could set up fail-safes like this."
• (Judi Dench) "Can you get past them?"
• (Ben Whishaw) "I invented them."

• (Ben Whishaw) "Oh, no. Can someone tell me how he got into our system?"
• (Javier Bardem) "Not such a clever boy."
• (Ben Whishaw) "Oh, s***. Oh, s***, s***, s***. He hacked us."

• (Ben Whishaw) "The Walther PPK/S nine-millimeter short. It's been coded to your palmprint so only you can fire it. Less of a random killing machine, more of a personal statement."

• (Ben Whishaw) "I'm guessing this is not official."
• (Judi Dench) "Not even remotely."
• (Ben Whishaw) "So much for my promising career in espionage."

• (Ben Whishaw) "Good luck out there in the field -- And please return the equipment in one piece."
• (Judi Dench) "A brave new world."

Bérénice Marlohe as Sévérine

• (Bérénice Marlohe) "Be careful what you wish for --"

• (Bérénice Marlohe) "So, Mr. Bond, shall we discuss your next performance over that drink?"

• (Bérénice Marlohe) "Will you -- kill him?"
• (Judi Dench) "Someone always dies."

• (Bérénice Marlohe) "How much do you know about fear?"
• (Judi Dench) "All there is."
• (Bérénice Marlohe) "Not like this. Not like him."

Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva

• (Javier Bardem) "If you wanted, you could pick your own secret missions. As I do. Name it, name it. Destabilize a multinational by manipulating stocks. Bip. Easy. Interrupt transmissions from a spy satellite over Kabul -- done. Hmm. Rig an election in Uganda. All to the highest bidder."
• (Judi Dench) "Or a gas explosion in London."
• (Javier Bardem) "Mm-hm. Just point and click."
• (Judi Dench) "Well, everybody needs a hobby."
• (Javier Bardem) "So what's yours?"
• (Judi Dench) "Resurrection."

• (Javier Bardem) "There is nothing superfluous in my life. When a thing is redundant, it is; poof; eliminated"

• (Javier Bardem) "Think on your sins."

• (Javier Bardem) "Fifty year old Macallan. A particular favorite of yours, I understand. So, what's the toast? To the women we love?"

• (Javier Bardem) "You're still clinging to your faith in that old woman; when all she does is lie to you."
• (Judi Dench) "She never lied to me."
• (Javier Bardem) "No?"

• (Javier Bardem) "She sent you after me, knowing you're not ready, knowing you would likely die. Mommy was very bad."

• (Javier Bardem) "England. The Empire. MI6."
• (Javier Bardem) "You're living in a ruinous well. You just don't know it yet. At least here there are no old ladies giving orders and no; little; beep; gadgets; from those fools in Q branch."

• (Javier Bardem) "The two survivors. This is what she made us."

• (Javier Bardem) "Everyone, listen to me. Don't you dare touch her. She's mine."

• (Javier Bardem) "Hello, James. Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around 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 have trapped all the rats, but what do 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 --"
• (Javier Bardem) "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."

• (Javier Bardem) "Chasing spies; oh, it's so old fashioned."

• (Javier Bardem) "You know what it does to you, hydrogen cyanide?"

• (Javier Bardem) "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."

• (Javier Bardem) "Medical evaluation: fail. Physical evaluation: fail. Psychological evaluation, alcohol and substance addiction indicated. Ooh. Pathological rejection of authority based on unresolved childhood trauma."
• (Javier Bardem) "Subject is not approved for field duty and immediate suspension for service advised."
• (Javier Bardem) "What is this if not betrayal? She sent you off to me, knowing you're not ready, knowing you're likely die. Mommy was very bad."

• (Javier Bardem) "Ooh. See what she's done to you."
• (Judi Dench) "Well, she never tied me to a chair."
• (Javier Bardem) "Her loss."
• (Judi Dench) "Are you sure this is about M?"
• (Javier Bardem) "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."
• (Javier Bardem) "How you're trying to remember your training now."
• (Javier Bardem) "What's the regulation to cover this?"
• (Javier Bardem) "Well, first time for everything."
• (Javier Bardem) "Yes?"
• (Judi Dench) "What makes you think this is my first time?"
• (Javier Bardem) "Oh, Mr Bond. All the physical stuff; so dull, so dull."

• (Javier Bardem) "Just make sure Bond's dead."
• (Javier Bardem) "Now it's me and her --"

• (Javier Bardem) "No remorse. Just as I had imagined."
• (Judi Dench) "Regret is unprofessional."
• (Javier Bardem) ""Regret is unprofessional?" They 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. You betrayed me. So, I had only one thing left. My cyanide capsule in my back left molar. You remember, right? So, I broke the tooth and bit into the capsule. It -- burned all 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 in your eyes one last time."

Judi Dench as James Bond

• (Judi Dench) "Everyone needs a hobby --"
• (Javier Bardem) "So what's yours?"
• (Judi Dench) "Resurrection."

• (Judi Dench) "I f***ed this up, didn't I?"
• (Judi Dench) "No. You did your job."

• (Judi Dench) "I suppose -- It's too late to make a run for it?"
• (Judi Dench) "Well, I'm game if you are."
• (Judi Dench) "I did get one thing right."

• (Judi Dench) "I always did hate this house."

• (Judi Dench) "I like you better without your Beretta."
• (Bérénice Marlohe) "I feel naked without it."

• (Judi Dench) "Was that for me?"
• (Javier Bardem) "No, but that is."

• (Judi Dench) "I always hated this place."

• (Judi Dench) "The latest thing from Q branch; it's called a radio."

• (Judi Dench) "Take the bloody shot."
• (Eve) "Agent down."

• (Judi Dench) "Hire me or fire me. It's entirely up to you."

• (Judi Dench) "This is where you grew up."
• (Judi Dench) "Mm."

• (Judi Dench) "Where the hell have you been?"
• (Judi Dench) "Enjoying death. 007 reporting for duty."

• (Judi Dench) "It's a beautiful old house."
• (Albert Finney) "She is; and like all great ladies, she still has her secret ways."

• (Judi Dench) "What was it you said? "Take the bloody shot.""
• (Judi Dench) "I made a judgment call."
• (Judi Dench) "You should have trusted me to finish the job."
• (Judi Dench) "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."
• (Judi Dench) "I think you lost your nerve."
• (Judi Dench) "What are you expecting, a bloody apology? You know the rules of the game. You've been playing it long enough. We both have."
• (Judi Dench) "Maybe too long."
• (Judi Dench) "Speak for yourself."

• (Judi Dench) "007, Gareth Mallory."
• (Ralph Fiennes) "I hope I haven't missed anything. The PM does prattle on in a crisis. Bond."
• (Judi Dench) "Mallory."

• (Judi Dench) "007, what took you so long?"

• (Judi Dench) "You know what's at stake here. We cannot afford to lose that list."
• (Judi Dench) "Yes, mum."

• (Judi Dench) "Some men are coming to kill us. We're going to kill them first."

• (Judi Dench) "It won't open."
• (Ben Whishaw) "Of course it will, put your back into it."
• (Judi Dench) "Why don't you come down here and put your back into it?"

• (Eve) "I think she was encouraging you to take a desk job."
• (Judi Dench) "Just the opposite."

• (Judi Dench) "Oh, and I suppose that's completely inconspicuous."
• (Judi Dench) "Get in."

• (Judi Dench) "What a waste of good scotch."

• (Judi Dench) "I read your obituary of me."
• (Judi Dench) "And?"
• (Judi Dench) "Appalling."
• (Judi Dench) "Yeah, I knew you'd hate it. I did call you "an exemplar of British fortitude"."
• (Judi Dench) "That bit was all right."

• (Judi Dench) "The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives."
• (Judi Dench) "Your interior decorating tips have always been appreciated, 007."

• (Judi Dench) "Do you gamble?"
• (Eve) "I like a little flutter, now and then. Who doesn't like to take chances?"

• (Judi Dench) "You're scared."
• (Bérénice Marlohe) "Thank you for the drink; Mr. Bond."
• (Judi Dench) "You put on a good show. But, ever since we sat down you haven't stopped looking at your body guards. The three of them is a bit excessive. They're controlling you. They're not protecting you. Tattoo on your wrist is Macau sex trade. You belong to one of the houses. What were you 12? 13? I'm guessing he was your way out. Perhaps you thought you were in love. But, that was a long time ago."
• (Bérénice Marlohe) "You know nothing about it."
• (Judi Dench) "I know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be."

• (Judi Dench) "In your defense, a moving target is harder to hit."
• (Eve) "Then you'd better keep moving."

• (Judi Dench) "007, what the hell are you doing? Are you kidnapping me?"
• (Judi Dench) "That would be one way of looking at it."

• (Judi Dench) "You look beautiful in that dress."
• (Eve) "You don't scrub up so bad yourself."
• (Judi Dench) "Well, its amazing what one can do with an extra pair of hands."

• (Eve) "She's ready for you."
• (Judi Dench) "I'm sorry, have we met before?"
• (Eve) "I'm the one who should say sorry."
• (Judi Dench) "It was only four ribs. Some of the less vital organs. Nothing major."

• (Judi Dench) "What do you say about a man like that?"

• (Eve) "She's pretty."
• (Judi Dench) "Now, now."
• (Eve) "If you like that sort of thing."
• (Judi Dench) "I'll keep you posted."

• (Eve) "You know, Mallory's not as bad as you think."
• (Judi Dench) "He's a bureaucrat."
• (Eve) "You should do your homework. Gareth Mallory was a Lieutenant Colonel --"
• (Judi Dench) "Lieutenant Colonel in Northern Ireland. Hereford Regiment. Spent three months at the hands of the IRA."
• (Eve) "So there's more to him than meets the eye."

• (Judi Dench) "That's all right. You weren't using it."
• (Eve) "I wasn't using that one, either."

• (Judi Dench) "You ready?"
• (Albert Finney) "I was ready before you were born, son."

• (Judi Dench) "Ronson didn't make it, did he?"

• (Judi Dench) "Are you hurt?"
• (Judi Dench) "Only my pride is hurt."

• (Judi Dench) "Bet it all on red."

• (Judi Dench) "Who's got the list? Tell me. Who are you working for?"

• (Judi Dench) "Does he always get what he wants?"
• (Bérénice Marlohe) "More than you know."

• (Judi Dench) "It's not very comfortable, is it?"
• (Judi Dench) "Are you gonna complain all the way?"
• (Judi Dench) "Oh, go on, then, eject me. See if I care."

• (Judi Dench) "Find out who he works for and who has the list. Then, terminate him for Ronson."
• (Judi Dench) "With pleasure."

• (Judi Dench) "A storm's coming."

• (Judi Dench) "Good luck with that."

• (Judi Dench) "So this is it. We're both played out."
• (Judi Dench) "Well, if you believe that, why did you come back?"
• (Judi Dench) "Good question."
• (Judi Dench) "Because we're under attack. And you know we need you."
• (Judi Dench) "Well, I'm here."
• (Judi Dench) "You'll have to be debriefed and declared fit for active service. You can only return to duty when you've passed the tests, so take them seriously. And a shower might be in order."
• (Judi Dench) "I'll go home and change."
• (Judi Dench) "Oh, we've sold your flat, put your things into storage. Standard procedure on the death of an unmarried employee with no next of kin. You should have called."
• (Judi Dench) "I'll find a hotel."
• (Judi Dench) "Well, you're bloody well not sleeping here."

• (Judi Dench) "You know, we've never formerly been introduced."
• (Eve) "Oh? Well, my name's Eve. Eve Moneypenny."
• (Judi Dench) "Well I look forward to our time together, Miss Moneypenny."
• (Eve) "Me too. I'm sure we'll have one or two close shaves."

• (Judi Dench) "What was that?"
• (Eve) "VW Beetles -- I think."

• (Judi Dench) "Is this where you grew up?"
• (Judi Dench) "Mm."
• (Judi Dench) "How old were you when they died?"
• (Judi Dench) "You know the answer to that. You know the whole story."
• (Judi Dench) "Orphans always make the best recruits."

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

• (Judi Dench) "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 --"
• (Javier Bardem) "Say my name. Say it. My real name. I know you remember it."
• (Judi Dench) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "Always got to make an entrance."

• (Judi Dench) "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're not nations, they're 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, em, I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. And here today, I remember this, I think, from Tennyson: "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.""

• (Judi Dench) "Last rat standing."

• (Judi Dench) "I know I can't have this job forever, but I'll be damned if I'm going to leave the department in worse shape than I found it."
• (Ralph Fiennes) "M, you've had a great run. You should leave with dignity."
• (Judi Dench) "Go to hell with dignity. I'll leave when the job's done."

• (Judi Dench) "Open the door, please."
• (Judi Dench) "Open the door."
• (Judi Dench) "Health and Safety. Carry on."

• (Judi Dench) "Ronson's down. He needs a medical evac."
• (Judi Dench) "Where is it? Is it there?"
• (Judi Dench) "Hard drives gone."
• (Judi Dench) "You sure?"
• (Judi Dench) "It's gone. Give me a minute."
• (Judi Dench) "They must have it. Get after them."
• (Judi Dench) "I'm stabilizing Ronson."
• (Judi Dench) "We don't have the time."
• (Judi Dench) "I have to stop the bleeding."
• (Judi Dench) "Leave him."

Ralph Fiennes as Gareth Mallory

• (Ralph Fiennes) "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."
• (Judi Dench) "Look, three of my agents are dead already, don't you involve me in politics now --"
• (Ralph Fiennes) "The Prime Minister has ordered an inquiry. You're expected to attend."
• (Judi Dench) "Attend in stocks at midday? Who's old-fashioned now?"
• (Ralph Fiennes) "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."
• (Judi Dench) "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."

• (Ralph Fiennes) "I only have one question. Why not; stay dead? You have the perfect way out. Go and live, quietly somewhere. Not many field agents get to leave this cleanly."
• (Judi Dench) "Do you get out in the field much?"
• (Ralph Fiennes) "You don't need to be an operative to see the obvious. It's a young man's game."

• (Ralph Fiennes) "Excuse me, Prime Minister. I don't mean to interrupt, but just for the sake of variety, might we actually hear from the witness?"

• (Ralph Fiennes) "Good luck, 007. Don't cock it up."

Rory Kinnear as Tanner

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