Goldeneye (1989 TV Movie)

Charles Dance: Ian Fleming

Quotes 

• Ian Fleming : You'll have to be clear about one thing. I'm not as tough nor as strong as Commander Bond.

• CBS interviewer : President Kennedy greatly admires your work. I understand From Russia With Love is one of his ten favourite novels.

  Ian Fleming : He was good enough to tell me so in Washington, yes.

• CBS interviewer : Can you confirm the widespread reports that you wrote the bluepints for the Central Intelligence Agency?

  Ian Fleming : Forgive me I'm not in a position to confirm any such thing.

• Ian Fleming : We were involved in the... secret world.

  CBS interviewer : As a secret agent?

  Ian Fleming : The secret agent is the one person in the world who will never tell you he's a secret agent.

• Ian Fleming : Not too cold. If you accidentally shake it, please don't stir it.

• Ian Fleming : It's very hard work killing someone with a sandbag.

  Ann Fleming : Noel always said being killed by a sandbag is like adultery. You see it coming, can't avoid it, and it leaves one with a dreadful headache.

• Loelia : So, who will dear commander Bond's adversaries be?

  Ian Fleming : Rich, dominant, sadistic tyrants.

• Ian Fleming : One ought, I think, to treat women rather better than Bond, don't you feel?

• Ian Fleming : It's a highly sophisticated method of calming women who get too excited. Shake them, never stir them.

• Ian Fleming : Sixteen hours from now, I have to kill someone in cold blood.