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One ofJames Bond ’s most recognisable lineament traits is his use of quippy one - liner to punctuate his most badass moment , and every 007 actor has had their own unique style of one - line drive . The one - liner custom was enclose with the first on - screen adaptation of the Bond fibre , play by Sean Connery , and has permeate through every subsequent incarnation of the persona . Even the spunky and more naturalistic portrayals of Bond , like Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig , had their portion of one - liners . One of the Book of Job requirements for the screenwriter of a Bond movie is the ability to drop a line puns about sex and murder .
There are a few dissimilar occasion that call for a one - liner in a Bond movie . 007 mostly uses his wordplay to punctuate one of his commissioned killing . Sometimes , he has a doubled entendre up his arm when he ’s in seam with a cleaning lady . From the tongue - in - cheek humour of the Roger Moore epoch to the self - aware sarcasm of George Lazenby ’s brief rephrasing , every adhesiveness role player has their own comedic sensitivity when it comes to the one - liners . Each one has a one - liner that ’s more iconic than all the others – and some of those actor ’ one - lining are more iconic than those of their match .
6"Glad I Insisted You Brought That Cello"
Timothy Dalton, The Living Daylights
Timothy Dalton only played Bond in two movies , The Living DaylightsandLicence to Kill , but he still had his bonnie share of one - liners . Licence to Killis a gruesome revenge thriller that exit to much darker places than the middling Bond dangerous undertaking , so Dalton ’s wackiest one - liners were throttle toThe Living Daylights . One of the most iconic chase sequence in the entire franchise view Bond and his in style sexual love interestingness , concert cellist Kara Milovy , mount a cello case down a mountain . This delightfully absurd set - part is punctuated by a snappy one - line drive : “ Glad I insisted you brought that violoncello . ” If she had n’t brought the cello , they ’d be dead .
5"Shocking, Positively Shocking"
Sean Connery, Goldfinger
As the very first Bond actor in the prescribed Eon canon , Sean Connery introduced the one - lining custom to this franchise . After killing a bad guy with a gig gunslinger inThunderball , Connery ’s James Bond quips , “ I think he got the detail . ” After cast away a henchman into a fish tank full of hungry piranhas that readily begin tearing him to shreds inYou Only Live Twice , he quip , “ Bon appetit ! ” And , of course , Connery was the first Bond doer to say , “ Bond , James Bond , ” turning a quotidian graphic symbol intromission into one of the most iconic moment in moving picture history .
The most memorable one - liner from Connery ’s tenure arrived in the frigid open ofGoldfinger . This sequence established the gilded measure ( no pun mean ) forthe Bond series ’ action mechanism - backpack dusty opens . After blowing up a drug lab , Bond render to his hotel room , where he ’s ambushed by an assassin . He pushes the assassin into the bathtub , then throw in a lamp to fry the water , pour down the assassin . Bond then quips , “ Shocking , positively shocking , ” turning a man ’s death into a corny pun . This line provides a hilariously cold - blooded punchlinebefore the opening titles give up in .
4"This Never Happened To The Other Fellow"
George Lazenby, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
George Lazenby is the Bond actor with the fewest movies , having only star in one – On Her Majesty ’s Secret Service – before Connery revert to the office inDiamonds Are Forever . audience have gotten used to the office of Bond being recast after more than half a century of the character shift hand between actors , but it was a fresh phenomenon when Lazenby succeed Connery . On Her Majesty ’s Secret Servicehas a fun meta nod to the recastingwhen Lazenby trice at the audience with the one - lining , “ This never happened to the other fellow . ” It also set up a darker , more serious storyline than any of the other fellow ’s previous excursion .
3"Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Piece"
Roger Moore, The Man with the Golden Gun
Roger Moore ’s earned run average of Bond movies was defined by a wry , lingua - in - cheek sense of humor , which stand for that he end up with some of the most memorable one - lining . When Moore ’s Bond is caught sleeping with a KGB agent inThe Spy Who Loved Me , he distinguish his superior he ’s “ keeping the British last up , sir . ” When he employ a gas cooler to blow up Dr. Kananga like a balloon , he says , “ He always did have an inflated opinion of himself . ” After hold out an attack by Hugo Drax ’s preferred python inMoonrakerand Drax expect why he “ fracture up the encounter , ” Julian Bond cracks , “ I discovered he had a crush on me . ”
But the expectant one - liner from the Moore era is an clever play on word . InThe Man with the Golden Gun , when 007 is trying to get a defective guy to speak , he informs him that he ’s pointing his firearm flop at the man ’s inguen . He says , “ verbalize now or evermore hold your piece . ” This is a not bad paronomasia on the idiom , “ verbalize now or forever hold your peace , ” often used at wedding ceremonies to give guests the luck to object to the union , with the homophone “ piece”implying that if he does n’t give up the information Bond needs , he ’ll shoot his penis off .
2"That Last Hand Nearly Killed Me"
Daniel Craig, Casino Royale
With the fell fight scenes andtragic love story ofCasino Royale , Daniel Craig reinvent the Bond mythos with a gritty sentience of realism . Craig brought 007 into a post - Bourneworld with an stemma story set up firm in the genuine world , with real violence and real consequences . But he still had mickle of the character ’s signature one - liners . Some of those one - line drive even poked merriment at the reality . When Q hand Bond a gun and a radio , as opposed to all the far - fetched gadgets he used to give Bonds played by Connery and Moore , a defeated 007 jokes , “ It ’s not just Christmas , is it ? ”
1"For England, James?" “No, For Me”
Pierce Brosnan, GoldenEye
After the blue and gritty Dalton film , Pierce Brosnan ’s 007 land tenure mark a return to the goofy humour of the Moore epoch – and that intend a lot of corking one - liners . After throw a bad guy into a printing press inTomorrow Never drop dead , he quips , “ They ’ll print anything these Day . ” After give way Colonel Moon a briefcase full of diamonds that he ’s rigged with explosives inDie Another Day , he quips , “ Do n’t blow it all at once . ” And the film producer seem to have refer Denise Richards ’ “ Bond young woman ” role Christmas Jones purely to set up the crude double entendre , “ I remember Christmas only comes once a class . ”
But the most memorable one - liner from Brosnan ’s Bond came in his first outing , GoldenEye . When he fights Alec Trevelyan , his former colleague who betrayed him , atop the artificial satellite dish that will see through his demonic plan , Bond march the cold - heartedness that defines him as a fibre . As Bond has Trevelyan dangling over the satellite dish , quick to drop him to his death , Trevelyan ask if 007 is killing him “ for England , James ? ” Bond snaps back , “ No , for me , ” before letting go . This isJames Bond ’s coolest ( and coldest ) one - liner from the Brosnan era .
