The Spy Who Loved Me Quotes

  • Stromberg: Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system. Thanks primarily to you, I am happy to say that the first phase of our operation has met with considerable success. I have instructed my assistant to have paid into your Swiss bank accounts the sum of ten million dollars each.

    Prof. Markovitz: Thank you, sir.

    Dr. Bechmann: Thank you indeed.

    Stromberg: And that, I think, concludes our business. Before you go however, I very much regret to inform you that a dangerous development has recently been brought to my notice. Someone has been attempting to sell the plans of our tracking project to competing world powers; someone intimately associated with the project.

  • James Bond: Which bullet has my name on it? The first or the last?

    Major Anya Amasova: I have never failed on a mission, Commander. Any mission.

    James Bond: In that case, Major, one of us is bound to end up gravely disappointed, because neither have I.

  • James Bond: Oh, by the way, thanks for deserting me back there.

    Major Anya Amasova: Every woman for herself, remember?

    James Bond: Still, you did save my life.

    Major Anya Amasova: We all make mistakes, Mr. Bond.

  • Q: Right. Now pay attention, 007. I want you to take great care of this equipment. There are one or two rather special accessories...

    James Bond: Q, have I ever let you down?

    Q: Frequently.

  • Sheikh Hoseim: Can I persuade you to accept a bed for the night?

    [Claps his hands once]

    James Bond: That's kind of you Hoseim, but I really feel like -

    [turns and notices a harem girl walking towards him]

    Sheikh Hoseim: Are you, eh, quite sure I can't persuade you to stay the night?

    James Bond: When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures.

  • M: Moneypenny, where's 007?

    Moneypenny: He's on a mission sir. In Austria.

    M: Well, tell him to pull out. Immediately.

    [scene cuts to Bond making love to a woman]

  • Log Cabin Girl: But James, I need you!

    James Bond: So does England!

  • Major Anya Amasova: What happened to Kalba?

    James Bond: He was cut off - permanently.

  • Hotel Receptionist: I have a message for you.

    James Bond: I think you just delivered it.

  • [the motorcycle henchmen flies off a cliff in a cloud of feathers]

    James Bond: All those feathers and he still can't fly!

  • James Bond: Then how about a nightcap on the company? My company.

  • James Bond: Mmm, maybe I misjudged Stromberg. Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad.

  • Sheikh Hoseim: What can I offer you? Sheep's eyes? Dates? Vodka martini?

  • [after structure falls on Jaws]

    James Bond: Egyptian builders.

  • James Bond: He just dropped in for a quick bite.

  • Stromberg: I've been expecting you.

  • James Bond: The printout transmission unit, can you work it?

    Captain Carter: Well, sure; but, James, we've only got three minutes!

    James Bond: If we can work out the positions of those submarines, maybe we can reprogram them.

    Captain Carter: To do what?

    James Bond: To destroy EACH OTHER!

  • Captain Carter: That armour plating must be inches thick. We'll never get through it!

    James Bond: Come on, let's go to the armoury.

    Captain Carter: What do you expect to find there?

    James Bond: A nuclear missile!

    Captain Carter: A nuc - HEY, WAIT!

  • Major Anya Amasova: You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Bond. I went on a surviving course in Siberia.

    James Bond: Yes, I believe a great number of your countrymen do. What did they teach you?

    Major Anya Amasova: That it's very important - to have a positive - mental - attitude.

    James Bond: Nothing more practical than that?

    Major Anya Amasova: Food is also very important.

    James Bond: Mm-hmm. What else?

    Major Anya Amasova: When necessary, shared - bodily - warmth.

    James Bond: That's the part I like.

    [Kiss and embrace]

  • [last lines]

    [Bond and Anya are discovered making love]

    M: 007!

    General Anatol Gogol: XXX!

    Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence: Bond! What do you think you're doing?

    James Bond: Keeping the British end up, sir.

  • [Anya trying to shift gears]

    James Bond: Can you play any other tune?

  • Major Anya Amasova: Where is Fekkesh?

    James Bond: With the pharaohs.

  • Stromberg: Observe, Mr. Bond, the instruments of Armageddon.

  • [being endlessly pursued by Stromberg's villains]

    James Bond: You ever get the feeling that somebody doesn't like you?

  • [first lines]

    HMS Ranger Navigator: Captain wants to keep 500 feet.

    Young officer, HMS Ranger: [over PA] Maneuvering, Control. Come in shallow to 500 feet.

    [to crewman]

    Young officer, HMS Ranger: Keep 500 feet.

    HMS Ranger crewman: 500 feet it is, sir.

  • James Bond: [Amasova has just used a Bond car gadget to kill an enemy] How did you know about that?

    Major Anya Amasova: I stole the plans to this car two years ago.

  • James Bond: [in the Lotus Esprit, just before destroying one of Stromberg's helicopters with a missile] It's time we said goodbye to an uninvited guest.

  • Stromberg: Were they the two on the train?

    [Jaws nods]

    Stromberg: James Bond. And the woman is Major Amasova, a Russian agent. Let them get to shore... and then kill them.

  • James Bond: Mr. Kalba, my name is Bond, James Bond.

    Max Kalba: What of it?

  • Major Anya Amasova: Commander James Bond, recruited to the British Secret Service from the Royal Navy. Licensed to kill and has done so on numerous occasions. Many lady friends but married only once. Wife killed...

    James Bond: [interrupts her] Alright, you've made your point.

    Major Anya Amasova: You're sensitive, Mr. Bond?

    James Bond: About some things.

  • James Bond: [Sandor is barely holding onto Bond's necktie while dangling over the roof of a building] Where's Fekkesh?

    Sandor: Pyramids!

    [Bond knocks Sandor's hand away, he falls to his death]

    James Bond: [straightens his tie] What a helpful chap.

  • James Bond: [after detaining Jaws with a huge magnet] How does that grab you?

  • James Bond: Where's Anya?

    Stromberg: Well, well... a British agent in love with a Russian agent. Détente, indeed.

  • James Bond: Don't you miss the outside world?

    Stromberg: For me, this is all the world. There is beauty... there is ugliness... and there is death.

  • Stromberg: Within minutes, New York and Moscow will cease to exist.

  • James Bond: ...I said, where's Anya? Your time's running out, Stromberg!

    Stromberg: Yours, too, Mr. Bond... and faster than you think.

    [shoots an explosive bolt from his "table gun", just missing 007, who then aims his own pistol up the table]

    James Bond: You missed, Stromberg. Should've checked your barrel.

    [fires back into Stromberg's weapon; the far end of the table explodes in the villain's face, with lethal results]

  • James Bond: [Bond, posing as a marine biologist, examines a model of Atlantis] An underwater city. Well, everyone needs to have their dreams.

    Stromberg: No dream, Mr. Sterling. Soon a reality.

  • [With Bach playing in the background, Stromberg drops his beautiful-but-disloyal assistant from an elevator into a water tank, the sole occupant of which is a large tiger shark. The shark moves in to attack]

    Stromberg: [on loudspeaker] It was you who betrayed me. You had access to all the information. Now you will pay the penalty.

    [looks on from several view-screens as the girl swims for her life, in vain]

  • [while making love]

    Major Anya Amasova: But James, what will our superiors say?

    James Bond: That depends on who tells them.

  • Barman: Yes, sir?

    James Bond: The lady will have a - Bacardi on the rocks.

    Major Anya Amasova: For the gentleman, vodka martini - shaken, not stirred.

    James Bond: Touché.

  • [a camera globe moves through the holding bay, examining the USS Wayne crew]

    James Bond: [to Anya] Don't look up. You're on Candid Camera.

  • Liparus Captain: [his dying words, after 007 and the UK/Russian sub crews blast their way into Stromberg's operations room] You're too late, Bond. The submarines are already in position. In four minutes, the missiles will be launched.

  • Captain Carter: [as James is removing the warhead to a nuclear missile] James, are you sure you know what you're doing?

    James Bond: Well, there has to be a first time for everything.

  • Major Anya Amasova: The man I loved. He was in Austria 3 weeks ago. Did you kill him?

    James Bond: When someone's behind you on skis at 40 miles per hour trying to put a bullet in your back, you don't always have time to remember a face. In our business, Anya, people get killed. We both know that. So did he. It was either him or me. The answer to the question is yes. I did kill him.

    Major Anya Amasova: Then, when this mission is over, I will kill you.

  • Q: Good morning 007.

    James Bond: Morning Q.

    Q: Mission successful?

    James Bond: On and off.

  • KGB Radio Operator: Agent XXX. Calling Agent XXX. You will report to headquarters immediately. Agent XXX acknowledge and verify.

    Agent XXX: This is XXX. Message received and understood.

  • James Bond: Mr. Fekkesh is expecting me. I phoned him.

    Felicca: He asked me to give you a message. He will be a little late.

    James Bond: May I ask where he is?

    Felicca: Mr. Fekkesh asked me to entertain you while you are waiting.

    James Bond: Oh, really?

  • James Bond: Where is Fekkesh?

    Felicca: You are very suspicious, Mr. Bond.

    James Bond: Oh, I find I live much longer that way.

  • Felicca: If there is anything that you would like? Anything at all?

    James Bond: Well, I had lunch; but, I seem to have missed dessert.

    [Embrace and kiss]

  • James Bond: What an unexpected pleasure. Welcome to the Mojave Club. Buy you a drink, Major Amasova - or may I call you XXX?

    Major Anya Amasova: So, you know who I am.

    James Bond: You made quite an impression.

  • Major Anya Amasova: Goodbye, Mr. Bond.

    James Bond: Well, let's say "au revoir". I have the oddest feeling we'll be meeting again sometime.

  • James Bond: You have something I'm interested in buying.

    Major Anya Amasova: Just a moment. I would like to bid for it too. You forgot your drink, Mr. Bond.

    James Bond: Thank you. Na zdorovje.

    Max Kalba: It seems you have competition, Mr. Bond. And from where I sit, I fancy you will find the lady's figure - hard to match.

  • Major Anya Amasova: Make no mistake, Mr. Bond, I *want* that microfilm and I'm going to get it.

    James Bond: Unless I get it first.

  • Major Anya Amasova: It's getting cold.

    James Bond: I say, anything I can do to warm you up?

  • Major Anya Amasova: You're not trying to take advantage of me, are you?

    James Bond: [tone dripping sarcasm] The thought never crossed my mind.

  • M: [to Bond] Our respective governments have agreed to pool our resources to find out what happened to our submarines.

    General Anatol Gogol: We have entered a new era of Anglo-Soviet cooperation and as a sign of Russian good faith, I'm prepared to make available to you the microfilm recovered by Agent XXX.

    Agent XXX: With considerable ease, I might add.

  • General Anatol Gogol: I'm certain that two such perceptive talents will enjoy working together in Sardinia and that it will help to make Anglo-Soviet cooperation a reality.

  • James Bond: Silly, isn't it. We can't talk and yet we're in the same business.

    Major Anya Amasova: But with rival companies.

    James Bond: We're not rivals at the moment.

  • Major Anya Amasova: Why don't you lie down and let me look at it.

  • James Bond: You have a reservation for me. The name is Sterling.

    Hotel Receptionist: Ah, yes. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling, booked from Cairo.

    James Bond: That's right.

    Hotel Receptionist: We have Suite A5 for you. A sitting room - and two bedrooms.

    James Bond: [to Anya] Moneypenny being a little over efficient.

  • James Bond: We don't make mistakes of that sort.

    Major Anya Amasova: You sound just like a Russian.

  • Stromberg: By noon, the submarines Ranger and Potemkin will have reached their designated firing positions. Within minutes, New York City and Moscow will cease to exist. Global devastation will follow, and a new era will begin.

    James Bond: All right, Stromberg; you've made your point. Now, how much do you want?

    Stromberg: How much of *what*, Mr. Bond?

    James Bond: What's your price for NOT launching those nuclear missiles?

    Stromberg: [chuckles] Mr. Bond, I'm not interested in extortion. I intend to change the face of history.

    Major Anya Amasova: By destroying the world?

    Stromberg: By *creating* a world, a new and beautiful world beneath the sea. Today's civilization, as we know it, is corrupt and decedent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely - accelerating the process.

    Major Anya Amasova: That rationalizes thermonuclear genocide feebly at best.

    Stromberg: For that, Major, I will accept the judgement of posterity.

    Major Anya Amasova: [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE] I can give it to you here and now: "Karl Stromberg was a mass murderer who made Joseph Stalin seem like a common playground hooligan."

    James Bond: [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE] Well said, but I suspect he's heard it all before.

  • James Bond: In my country, Major, the condemned man is usually allowed a final request.

    Major Anya Amasova: Granted.

    James Bond: Let's get out of these wet things.

  • General Anatol Gogol: I regret to inform you, Major, that Agent Sergei Barsov has been killed. On a mission, at Berngarten in the Austrian Alps.

    Major Anya Amasova: A tragic occurrence, Comrade General.

    General Anatol Gogol: It had not escaped our notice that you had been more than friends for some time. I'm very sorry.

    Major Anya Amasova: How did he die?

    General Anatol Gogol: We haven't all the details yet, but it appears he'd become involved in a British Secret Service operation.

    Major Anya Amasova: Please keep me informed, Comrade General. I should very much like to meet whoever was responsible for his death.

  • James Bond: He's on our records. A professional killer.

    Major Anya Amasova: Called Jaws.

  • Major Anya Amasova: You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Bond. I went on a survival course in Siberia.

    James Bond: Yes, I believe a great number of your countrymen do.

  • James Bond: [as Naomi turns back towards the speedboat] What a handsome craft.

    James Bond: Such lovely lines.

    [Onboard the speedboat, James and Naomi make eye contact and smile at each other in front of Anya]

  • Log Cabin Girl: [laying, nude, in front of a fireplace, on the bearskin rug with Bond on top] Oh, James. I cannot find the words.

    James Bond: Well, let me try to enlarge your vocabulary.

    [kiss]

  • M: Moneypenny, where's 007?

    Moneypenny: He's on a mission Sir, in Austria.

    M: Well, tell him to pull out... immediately!

    Log Cabin Girl: [the scene cuts to Bond making love to a beautiful woman in a log cabin on a bearskin rug. She turns her head blissfully] Oh James! I cannot find the words!

    James Bond: [Bond is duty bound to do something about that] Well, let me try to enlarge your vocabulary.

    [they're lips meet again and for a while there's no more talking]

Extended Reading
  • Fredrick 2022-04-22 07:01:27

    June 13, 2021. Tourist attractions include the Pyramids of Cairo, Italy.

  • Karson 2022-04-21 09:02:07

    Samsung and a half see from the history of 007 that the relationship between major powers in the world could have such a big scene back then, it should be very awesome