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Tomorrow Never Dies Quotes (1997)
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Famous Tomorrow Never Dies Quotations
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Pierce Brosnan returns for his second stint as James Bond (after GoldenEye), and he's doing it in high style with an invigorating cast of costars. It's only appropriate that a Bond film from 1997 would find Agent 007 pitted against a media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) who's going to start a global war (beginning with stolen nuclear missiles aimed at China) to create attention-grabbing headlines for his latest multimedia news channel. It's the information age run amok, and Bond must team up with a lovely and lethal agent from the Chinese External Security Force (played by Honk Kong action star Michelle Yeoh) to foil the madman's plot of global domination. Luckily for Bond, the villain's wife (Teri Hatcher) is one of his former lovers, and at the behest of his superior M (Judi Dench), 007 finds ample opportunity to exploit the connection. Although it bears some nagging similarities to many formulaic action films from the '90s, Tomorrow Never Dies (with a title song performed by Sheryl Crow) boasts enough grand-scale action and sufficiently intelligent plotting to suggest the Bond series has plenty of potential to survive into the next millennium. Armed with the usual array of gadgets (including a remote-controlled BMW), Brosnan settles into his role with acceptable flair, and the dynamic Yeoh provides a perfect balance to the sexism that once threatened to turn Bond into a politically incorrect anachronism. He's still Bond, to be sure, but he's saving the world with a bit more sophisticated finesse. In addition to theatrical trailers, this special edition DVD comes with a feature-length audio commentary by director Roger Spottiswoode, more commentary by stunt director Vic Armstrong and producer Michael G. Wilson, a storyboard overlay that compares action-sequence concepts with final footage, a 45-minute "Secrets of 007" featurette covering the evolution of the Bond character, and an isolated music-only track with an interview of composer David Arnold. Bond would be proud.--Jeff Shannon
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- Adm. Kelly - HMS Bedford: Now, Captain? Whatever the hell that thing is, sink it. »
- Admiral Roebuck: With all due respect, M, I think you don't have the balls for this job.
M: Maybe. But the advantage is, I don't have to think with them all the time. »
- Charles Robinson: Our man's in position on the center camera. It's like a terrorist supermarket. Chinese Long March Scud, Panther AS-565 attack helicopter, a pair of Russian mortars, and the crates look like American rifles. Chilean mines. German explosives. Fun for the whole family. »
- Dr. Kaufman: My art is in great demand, Mr. Bond. I go all over the world. I am especially good at the celebrity overdose. »
- Dr. Kaufman: This is very embarrassing. It seems there is a red box they need in your car, only they can't get it open. They want me to get you to tell how to open it. I feel like an idiot, I don't know what to say.
Dr. Kaufman: I am to torture you if you don't do it.
James Bond: Do you have a doctorate in that as well?
Dr. Kaufman: No, no this is more like a hobby... but I am very gifted.
James Bond: Oh, I believe you. »
- Elliot Carver: According to Eastern philosophy, the body has twelve different chakra points. Energy centers, the heart, genitals, et cetera. The purpose of these implements is to probe those organs, inflicting the maximum amount of pain while keeping the victim alive for as long as possible.
Mr. Stamper: Dr. Kaufman's record was fifty-two hours. I'm hoping to break it.
James Bond: I would have thought watching your TV shows was torture enough. »
- Elliot Carver: Don't you realise how absurd your position is?
James Bond: No more absurd than starting a war for ratings. »
- Elliot Carver: Good morning, my golden retrievers. What kind of havoc shall the Carver Media Group create in the world today? News?
Newsman: Floods in Pakistan, riots in Paris, and a plane crash in California.
Elliot Carver: Excellent. »
- Elliot Carver: I rather like the last one. It isn't even mine. »
- Elliot Carver: Mr. Jones, are we ready to release our new software?
Jones: Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to upgrade for years.
Elliot Carver: Outstanding. »
- Elliot Carver: Mr. Wallace, call the President. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
Mr. Wallace: Inspired, sir.
Elliot Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
Mr. Wallace: Consider him slimed. »
- Elliot Carver: Soon I'll have reached out to and influenced more people than anybody in the history of this planet, save God himself. And the best he ever managed was the Sermon on the Mount. »
- Elliot Carver: The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. »
- Elliot Carver: There's no news like bad news. »
- Gupta: I call it "Gupta's Law of Convienient Anomlies" - if it looks too god to be true, it probably is. »
- Jack Wade: You know that, officially, Uncle Sam is completely neutral in this turkey shoot.
James Bond: And unofficially?
Jack Wade: We have no interest in seeing World War III - unless we start it. »
- James Bond: Another Carver building. If I didn't know better, I'd say he developed an edifice complex. »
- James Bond: Are you sure you can do this on your own?
Wai-Lin: It depends whether your mission is peace or revenge.
James Bond: This is about stopping a war. »
- James Bond: I always enjoyed learning a new tongue. »
- James Bond: It won't look like a suicide if you shoot me from over there.
Dr. Kaufman: I am a professor of forensic medicine. Believe me, Mr. Bond, I could shoot you from Stuttgart und still create ze proper effect. »
- James Bond: Now I think we can understand each other.
Q: Grow up, 007. »
- James Bond: Was it something I said?
Paris Carver: How about the words, "I'll be right back"? »
- James Bond: You forgot the first rule of mass media, Elliot: give the people what they want. »
- James Bond: You were pretty good with that hook.
Wai-Lin: Thanks. It comes from growing up in a rough neighborhood. You were pretty good on the bike.
James Bond: Thank you. It comes from not growing up at all. »
- M: I wonder what will upset them more, that the CIA lost it, or that we found it. »
- Moneypenny: You always were a cunning linguist, James.
Moneypenny: Don't ask.
M: Don't tell. »
- Mr. Stamper: I owe you an unpleasant death, Mr. Bond. »
- Paris Carver: I used to look in the papers every day for your obituary.
James Bond: Sorry to disappoint. »
- Paris Carver: Tell me, James: do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow? »
- Paris Carver: This job of yours... it's murder on relationships. »
- Q: Here's your cell phone. Talk here, listen here.
James Bond: So that's what I've been doing wrong for all these years? »
- Q: It's the insurance damage waiver for your beautiful new car. Will you need collision coverage?
James Bond: Yes
Q: Fire?
James Bond: Probably
Q: Personal Injury?
James Bond: I hope not, but accidents do happen.
Q: They frequently do with you.
James Bond: Is there any other protection I need?
Q: Only from me 007, unless you bring that car back in pristine order. »
- Wai Lin: It's mostly dull routine, of course. But every now and then, you get to sail on a beautiful evening like this, and sometimes work with the decadent agent of a corrupt Western power.
James Bond: And they say Communists don't know how to have fun... If I may say so, you've found the right decadent corrupt Western agent as a partner. »
- Wai-Lin: They're looking for us, James.
James Bond: Let's stay under cover. »
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