No Time to Die (2021) Best Quotes – ‘We all have our secrets.’

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Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, David Dencik

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Spy thriller sequel directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. No Time to Die (2021) follows Bond (Daniel Craig), who has left active service. But his peace is short-lived when his friend, the CIA officer Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), enlists his help in the search for a missing scientist. When it becomes apparent that the scientist was abducted, Bond must confront a danger the likes of which the world has never seen before.

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'The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.' - M (No Time to Die) Click To Tweet

Best Quotes

Madeleine: Can you go faster?
James Bond: We don’t need to go faster. We have all the time in the world.

James Bond: [moviequotesandmore.com] What are they burning?
Hotel Porter: Secrets. Wishes. Letting go of the past. Getting rid of old things, in come the new.

Madeleine: [referring to Vesper] Can you forgive her? For us?
James Bond: I left her behind a long time ago.
Madeleine: As long as we’re looking over our shoulder, the past is not dead. You have to let her go, even if it’s hard.
James Bond: You mean, if we’re to have a future? So, I do this, and then…
Madeleine: I’ll tell you all my secrets.

James Bond: [at Vesper’s grave] I miss you.

James Bond: [to Madeleine] You were right. Letting go is hard.

Madeleine: There is something I need to tell you.
James Bond: I bet there is.

Madeleine: [moviequotesandmore.com] James, why? Why would I betray you?
James Bond: We all have our secrets. We just didn’t get to yours yet.

Madeleine: [as James takes her to the train station] So, this is it?
James Bond: This is it.
Madeleine: How will I know that you’re okay?
James Bond: You won’t. You’ll never see me again.

Felix Leiter: I need a favor, brother.
James Bond: You didn’t get the memo? I’m retired.
Felix Leiter: I wouldn’t ask if you were still in Her Majesty’s Service.
James Bond: And what does that mean?
Felix Leiter: Our elected leaders aren’t playing nice in the sandbox.

Felix Leiter: Help us get this into the right hands.
James Bond: Oh, what, and you’re the right hands?
Felix Leiter: I’m not just a pretty face.
James Bond: I stopped trusting pretty faces a long time ago, Felix.
Felix Leiter: Yeah, I heard. Bad luck.
James Bond: Bad judgment.
Felix Leiter: Harder to tell the good from bad, villains from heroes these days.

Felix Leiter: I need you, James. You’re the only one I trust with this. I’m not screwing around. I want to get back to my family, and tell them I saved the world again. Don’t you?

Nomi: In trouble?
James Bond: Constantly.

Nomi: [moviequotesandmore.com] I have a thing for old wrecks.
James Bond: Well, then you’ve come to the right place.

James Bond: [as Nomi takes off her wig] Well, that’s not the first thing I thought you’d take off, but…
Nomi: Yeah. You seem like a man who’s gagging for some action, Mr. Bond.
James Bond: Shall we cut to the chase?
Nomi: I’m here as a professional courtesy.
James Bond: Well, you’re not very courteous, are you?

James Bond: Double-O?
Nomi: Two years.
James Bond: Very young.
Nomi: High achiever.

Nomi: The world’s moved on since you retired, Commander Bond. Perhaps you didn’t notice.
James Bond: No, can’t say I had. And in my humble opinion, the world doesn’t change very much.
Nomi: You would say that. Look, this all seems like heaven, this little bubble, or whatever. But it’s so obvious you’re a man who only has time to kill, nothing to live for.

Nomi: [to James] You get in my way, I will put a bullet in your knee. The one that works.

Nomi: By the way, I’m not just any old double-O. I’m 007. You probably thought they’d retire it.
James Bond: It’s just a number.

James Bond: [to M] I met your new 007. She’s a disarming young woman.

James Bond: [over phone] Felix, I’m in.
Felix Leiter: He’s in. There’s a young lady in Santiago I want you to meet.

Paloma: [to James] I forget things when I get nervous. This is the biggest job I’ve ever had.

James Bond: [moviequotesandmore.com] This is going to go brilliantly.
Paloma: I know. I’ve done three weeks training.

James Bond: Two vodka martinis, shaken, not stirred.

James Bond: [over earpiece] What is this? Spectre bunga-bunga? You ever been to a party like this?
Paloma: How do you think I got this job?

Paloma: [over earpiece] Friend of yours?
James Bond: Cyclops. We ran into each other in Italy. That was an eye-opening experience.

Blofeld: But I see you from my little eye, and my little eye says hi. Now, see, now, we emerge from the shadows as gods on Mount Olympus. Here’s to the end of our pariah. Oh, my burden, my brother, James Bond. Goodbye, James.

James Bond: Three weeks training, really?
Paloma: More or less.

James Bond: [moviequotesandmore.com] This is my stop. Goodbye.
Paloma: You were excellent.
James Bond: You too. Next time, stay longer.
Paloma: I will.

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James Bond: Spectre’s dead. Sit.
Felix Leiter: Who’s dead?
James Bond: All of them.

Felix Leiter: I don’t know about you, but I got a feeling in my gut Ash might not be on our side.
James Bond: And we need to have a conversation about the company you keep.
Felix Leiter: I’m with you.

Felix Leiter: This might be my last mission. What do you think?
James Bond: I think you’re just looking for an excuse not to help me.

James Bond: Come on, Felix, we’ve been in worse than this. Let’s go.
Felix Leiter: It’s like back when I was a kid on that shrimp boat.
James Bond: You’re from Milwaukee.
Felix Leiter: Am I? I thought I made that up.

Felix Leiter: James, it’s a good life, isn’t it?
James Bond: The best.
[just then Felix dies]

Security Guard: Name?
James Bond: Bond.
James Bond: [the security guard looks at him] James Bond.

Moneypenny: How’s retirement?
James Bond: Quiet.

Moneypenny: [to James and Nomi] I thought you two would get along.

Nomi: [referring to James] I get why you shot him.
Moneypenny: Yeah. Well, everyone tries at least once.

James Bond: [to M] Has this desk got bigger? Or have you got smaller?

M: I can’t pretend there weren’t some sorry faces when you left us, Bond. But you fell so far off the grid that we thought you must be dead. Now, learning that you were, in fact,
alive and well, and working for the CIA, well, that really was a blow.
James Bond: Well, they just asked so nicely.

M: It’s a shame that you haven’t lost your touch. We wouldn’t be in this mess.
James Bond: This is your mess. Blofeld tried to kill me in Cuba, but someone hijacked his plan. And whoever stole your weapon used it to wipe out Spectre instead. Now your weapon is on the run, and nobody seems to know who has it. So you can imagine why I’ve come back to play.

M: You have no right to make insinuations about my judgment. If you’ve nothing left to give, you are irrelevant! You’ve done your bit, and we thank you for your service, again. Goodbye. Moneypenny, send in 007. You can go, Bond.
James Bond: It’s definitely the same desk.

Q: So you’re not dead.
James Bond: Hello, Q. I’ve missed you.

Q: Can I just have one nice evening, please, before the world explodes?

Lyutsifer Safin: Death has a particular effect on children, doesn’t it?
Madeleine: What effect did it have on you?
Lyutsifer Safin: Profound. But I saved a life once. I think that had more of an effect.
Madeleine: Why is that?
Lyutsifer Safin: Saving someone’s life connects you to them forever, the same as taking it. They belong to you.

Madeleine: Why would I do anything for you?
Lyutsifer Safin: Because I am a man willing to kill the person you love most.
Madeleine: I’ve already lost everyone I’ve ever loved. There is nothing you can threaten me with.
Lyutsifer Safin: That is very sad to hear, Madeleine. But it is not true, is it?

M: [referring to Madeleine and Blofeld] She’s the only psychiatrist he agreed to speak to. I had to exercise my judgment.
James Bond: Your judgment is the problem.

M: If the world knows what this can do…
James Bond: They’d kill for it.
M: Look, if it’s an error, it’s on my shoulders, fair and square. I’ve dedicated my life to defending this country. I believe in defending the principles of this. But we used to be able to get into a room with the enemy, we could look him in the eye. And now the enemy is just floating in the ether. We don’t even know what they’re after.

Q: Oh, Bond. My God, I haven’t seen you in… How is your retirement?
M: Shut up, Q. I know he’s staying with you. And you’re not in the clear either.
Nomi: What happened?
M: He’s been reinstated as a double-O.
Nomi: Double-O what?

Tanner: [referring to Blofeld] He’s the most valuable asset this country has. I know you and he have a history, but don’t let him get in your head. If you feel yourself losing control…
James Bond: Oh, Tanner, relax. I’m not going to lose…
James Bond: [sees Madeleine down the corridor] Control.

James Bond: [referring to Blofeld] It must be nice to catch up with an old friend so regularly.
Madeleine: We’re closer than ever.

Nomi: [referring to James and Madeleine meeting] Oh, that was awkward. Does he have that effect on all women?
Tanner: Fifty-fifty. It’s unpredictable.

James Bond: [as they’re about to visit Blofeld] What is it?
Madeleine: James, you don’t know what this is. Don’t make me do this. Please.

Blofeld: My sweet James, what do you want?
James Bond: Your enemies are closing in, Blofeld. And the biggest twist here is that if you tell me who they are, I could save your life.
Blofeld: Mm, my avenging angel. My chaser of lost causes. Now you even chase mine. But you’re asking the wrong question.

Blofeld: [to James] You keep coming back to me. I thought I’d never see you again. But fate draws us back together.

Blofeld: Now your enemy is my enemy. How did that happen?
James Bond: Well, you live long enough…
Blofeld: Yeah. Look at us. Two old men in a hole trying to work out who’s playing tricks on us.

Blofeld: [referring to Madeleine] She still loves you. Did you know that? And you broke her heart. And she betrayed you.
James Bond: She is irrelevant.
Blofeld: I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss. You said it yourself, she’s very good at hiding things. And when her secret finds its way out, and it will, it’ll be the death of you.

Blofeld: [to James] All this wasted time, the life you could have had. And the reason all of this is so beautiful, so exquisitely beautiful, is that you’re coming to me looking for answers, whereas the one person who knows it all is she. It’s Madeleine. She holds the secrets you need. All of them. I didn’t need to kill you. I’d already broken you. I wanted to give you an empty world, like the one you gave me. It’s enough to almost make me regret it. Almost.

Moneypenny: [after Blofeld dies] Is she one of them?
James Bond: I don’t know.
Moneypenny: James, do you have any idea where she might have gone?
James Bond: No. I don’t know her at all.

James Bond: [referring to Blofeld] He told me you didn’t betray me.
Madeleine: I understand you’re not built to trust people.
James Bond: Neither are you.
Madeleine: Then we were fools for trying.
James Bond: I wanted to.

James Bond: [to Madeleine] I don’t know if you wanted me to come here, or why you tried to kill Blofeld, or who gave you the poison to do it, or how long you’ve been working for them, but I do know, that for what felt like five minutes of my life, I wanted everything with you. And it’s not because I didn’t trust. It was just that feeling.

James Bond: [to Madeleine] I know I’ve come here to find out who gave you the poison. But I’m not going to leave here without you knowing that I have loved you, and I will love you, and I do not regret a single moment of my life that led me to you. Except when I put you on that train.

Madeleine: Do you know the worst thing about you?
James Bond: My timing?
Madeleine: Don’t.
James Bond: My sense of humor?
Madeleine: Don’t.

Madeleine: [referring to Mathilde] She’s not yours.
James Bond: Okay, the blue eyes.
Madeleine: She’s not yours.

James Bond: [referring to Safin] And what does he want?
Madeleine: Revenge. Me.

Madeleine: [referring to Safin] You’re going to find him?
James Bond: There are a thousand reasons why we need to find this man. You just gave me a reason to kill him.

Logan Ash: You won’t be able to stop him, so why don’t you help me out, brother?
James Bond: I had a brother. His name was Felix Leiter.

Nomi: Permission for Commander Bond to be redesignated as 007. It’s just a number.
M: Very well. Agreed.

Q: Bond, you don’t mind a shot or two whilst at work? Shall we?
James Bond: Well, I haven’t had a drink for three or four hours.
Nomi: Wow. Doesn’t sound like you.

Madeleine: How damaged you must be to threaten a little girl.
Lyutsifer Safin: You’re any less damaged? You love a killer. You bore his child, despite his rejection. You’ve hidden and lied your whole life. You will do anything…
Madeleine: To survive.
Lyutsifer Safin: You understand me the same way I understand you.

James Bond: [as they’re about to take off] Have you ever flown one of these things before?
Nomi: Nope.

James Bond: If I don’t come back, blow it all to s**t.
Nomi: We don’t have enough explosives for that.
James Bond: Yeah, but they don’t know that.

Lyutsifer Safin: James Bond. History of violence. License to kill. Vendetta with Ernst Blofeld. In love with Madeleine Swann. I could be speaking to my own reflection.
James Bond: We’ve made slightly different choices.
Lyutsifer Safin: No. We’ve just developed different methods for the same goal. Only your skills die with your body. Mine will survive long after I’m gone. And life is all about leaving something behind. Isn’t it?

James Bond: [to Safin] I think we are the same. We both know what it feels like to have everything taken from us before we’re even in the fight. It would have been nice to have a chance, you know, don’t you think? Just, we all should get a chance. But this thing that you’re building, it puts everyone, the whole world on a battlefield. Nobody gets a chance.

Lyutsifer Safin: The thing that no one wants to admit is that most people want things to happen to them. We tell each other lies about the fight for free will and independence, but we don’t really want that. We want to be told how to live, and then die when we are not looking. People want oblivion, and a few of us are born to build it for them. So, here I am, their invisible god, sneaking under their skin.

James Bond: You know that history isn’t kind to those who play God.
Lyutsifer Safin: And you don’t? We both eradicate people to make the world a better place. I just want to be a little tidier. Without collateral. I want the world to evolve, yet you want it to stay the same.

Lyutsifer Safin: Let’s face it, I’ve made you redundant.
James Bond: No. Not as long as there are people like you in the world. And with all due respect to the enormity of your tidy achievements, all you’re really doing is standing in a very long line of angry little men.
Lyutsifer Safin: I’m not angry, just passionate.

Lyutsifer Safin: Simple choices, Mr. Bond. Like do you want to die in front of your daughter? Or do you want your daughter to die in front of you?

Lyutsifer Safin: [as James is on his knees] Look at your father, Mathilde. This is power.
James Bond: I’m sorry. I’m truly, truly sorry.

Nomi: Do you know what time it is?
Valdo Obruchev: What?
Nomi: Time to die.

Nomi: Ah, just in time.
James Bond: Nomi, you know, Madeleine, Mathilde, they’re my…
Nomi: Family?

James Bond: I have to finish this. For us.
Madeleine: I know.
[James kisses her]

M: [over radio] If we launch, the Russians, the Japanese, and even the Americans will want answers.
James Bond: Well, don’t give them any.
M: Rational minds, Bond. I’m trying to save this from escalating to all-out war.
James Bond: Mallory, if we don’t do this, there will be nothing left to save.

Q: Sounds like you’re in a rugby scrum.
James Bond: I just showed someone your watch. Really blew their mind.

Lyutsifer Safin: [to James] Now we are both poisoned with heartbreak. Two heroes in a tragedy of our own making. Anyone we touch, we are their curse. A stroke to their cheek, a kiss, would kill them instantly.

James Bond: [after he kills Safin and is infected with the nanobots] I’m not going to make it.
Madeleine: What? But you promised. Just get off that island. I know you can do this. Everything’s good now. There’s no one left to hurt us.

James Bond: [over radio] Madeleine, you have made the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She’s perfect. Because she came from you.

Madeleine: There must be a way. We just need more time. If we only had more time.
James Bond: You have all the time in the world.
Madeleine: I love you.
James Bond: I love you too.
Madeleine: She does have your eyes.
James Bond: I know. I know.
[then the missiles hit the island, killing James]

M: Very hard to know what to say, but I thought we should gather and remember. And I thought this was appropriate. “The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Madeleine: Mathilde. I’m going to tell you a story about a man. His name was Bond. James Bond.

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