"[to Gambol] You wanna know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker, and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that — not... one... bit! So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, "Why so serious?" He comes at me with the knife: "Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth: "Let's put a smile on that face!" And — [looks suddenly at Gambol's henchman] Why so serious? [kills Gambol]"

"[to bank manager] I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you...stranger."

"Tell your boy it’s going to be alright, Gordon. Lie, like I lied."

"Have you ever had to talk to the person you love most, tell them it's all going to be alright when you know it's not? Well... you're about to know what that feels like, Gordon. Then, you can look me in the eye and tell me you're sorry."

"You think I wanna escape from this? There is no escape from this!"

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

"007 The double "O" means he has a license to kill when he chooses ... where he chooses ... whom he chooses!"

"Lois Maxwell — Miss Moneypenny"

"Eunice Gayson — Sylvia Trench"

"John Kitzmiller — Quarrel"

"Zena Marshall — Miss Taro"

"Anthony Dawson — Professor Dent"

"Bernard Lee — M"

"Jack Lord — Felix Leiter"

"Joseph Wiseman — Dr. No"

"Ursula Andress — Honey Ryder"

"Sean Connery — James Bond"

"The First James Bond Film Adventure!"

"NOW meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction! ... JAMES BOND, Agent 007!"

"His name is Bond — James Bond."

"If you carry a double-O number, it means you're licensed to kill, not get killed."

"Unfortunately I misjudged you, you are just a stupid policeman ... [metal door opens and guards enter] ... whose luck has run out."

"A medium dry martini, lemon peel, shaken, not stirred."

"[when Professor Dent aims revolver at him - but its empty] That's a Smith & Wesson, [aims his own pistol] and you've had your six. [shoots Dent twice, killing him.]"

"That woman has given her whole life in service to her people. Fifty years doing a job she never wanted! A job she watched kill her father. She's executed it with honor, dignity and, as far as I can tell, without a single blemish, and now we're all baying for her blood! All because she's struggling to lead the world in mourning for someone who... who threw everything she offered back in her face and who, for the last few years, seemed committed 24/7 to destroying everything she holds most dear!"

"Michel Gay - Dodi al Fayed"

"Laurence Burg - Diana, Princess of Wales"

"Harry Alexander Coath - Euan Blair"

"Mark Bazeley - Alastair Campbell"

"Helen McCrory - Cherie Blair"

"Michael Sheen - Tony Blair"

"Dash Barber - HRH Prince Harry"

"Jake Taylor Shantos - HRH Prince William"

"Douglas Reith - Lord Airlie"

"Tim McMullan - Stephen Lamport"

"Sylvia Syms - HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother"

"Roger Allam - Sir Robin Janvrin"

"Alex Jennings - HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales"

"James Cromwell - HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh"

"Helen Mirren - HM Queen Elizabeth II"

"A Lifetime of Tradition. A World of Change."

"If you imagine I'm going to drop everything and come down to London before I attend to my grandchildren who've just lost their mother, then you're mistaken. I doubt there is anyone who knows the British people more than I do, Mr. Blair, nor who has greater faith in their wisdom and judgement. And it is my belief that they will any moment reject this, this "mood" which is being stirred up by the press, in favor of a period of restrained grief and sober, private mourning. That's the way we do things in this country, quietly, with dignity. That's what the rest of the world has always admired us for."

"Our Leaders. Ourselves."

"Queen of a Nation, Queen of Hearts."

"Tradition Prepared Her. Change Will Define Her."

"Alastair Campbell: [to Tony Blair] They, er, sent a copy of the Queen's speech. Might want to scrape the frost off it first... Oh, I phoned them with a couple of suggestions, to make it sound like it came from a human being."

"You must show your strength. Reassert your authority. You sit on the most powerful throne in Europe, head of an unbroken line that goes back more than a thousand years. Do you think any of your predecessors would have dropped everything and gone up to London because a bunch of hysterics carrying candles needed help with their grief? Huh! As for that silly Mr. Blair with his Cheshire Cat grin..."

"[Last lines] I never made that journey to Balham. So the scene in which I confess to them is invented, imagined. And, in fact, could never have happened... .because Robbie Turner died of septicaemia at Bray Dunes on the first of June 1940, the last day of the evacuation...and I was never able to put things right with my sister Cecilia....because she was killed on the 15th of October, 1940 by the bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains above Balham tube station. So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. Which ever since I've... ever since I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or... evasion... but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness."

"Vanessa Redgrave – Older Briony"

"Daniel Mays – Tommy Nettle"