Toby Stephens credited as playing...
Gustav Graves
- James Bond: [a device closes; cocks gun] So you lived to die another day... Colonel.
- Gustav Graves: At last... I was beginning to think you would never guess.
- James Bond: Was it painful? The gene therapy.
- Gustav Graves: You couldn't possibly imagine.
- James Bond: Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that.
- Gustav Graves: But there have been compensations, like you floating around in peril. Granting you life day by day just to see you get wise. It's been fun.
- James Bond: Well, the fun is about to come to a dead end.
- [Graves and Bond are fighting in a depressurizing plane]
- Gustav Graves: You see, Mr. Bond, you can't kill my dreams. But my dreams can kill you. Time to face destiny.
- [James pulls Graves' parachute cord]
- James Bond: Time to face gravity.
- Gustav Graves: [Spoiler Quote]
- [Miranda point her gun at Graves]
- Gustav Graves: So... Miss Frost is not all she seems.
- James Bond: Looks can be deceptive.
- Gustav Graves: Yes. By the way, did you find out who betrayed you in North Korea?
- James Bond: Only a matter of time.
- Gustav Graves: You never even thought of looking inside your own organization?
- [Miranda turns against MI6 by pointing the gun at James]
- Gustav Graves: She was right under your nose.
- Miranda Frost: [James shoots, but his gun is empty] It was so good of you to bring your gun in bed with us.
- James Bond: Yes. Occupational hazard.
- [throws the empty pistol on the floor]
- Gustav Graves: You see, I have a gift. An instinct for sensing people's weaknesses. Yours is women. Hers and mine are winning, whatever the cost. So when I arranged for that fatal overdose for the true victor at Sydney, I won myself my very own MI6 agent, using everthing at my disposal - her brains, her talent, even her sex.
- James Bond: The coldest weapon of all.
- James Bond: I see you don't chase dreams, you live them.
- Gustav Graves: One of the virtues of never sleeping, Mr. Bond. I have to live my dreams. Besides, plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.
- Gustav Graves: We only met briefly, but you left a lasting impression. You see, when your intervention forced me to present the world with a new face, I chose to model the disgusting Gustav Graves on you. Oh, just in the details - that unjustifiable swagger, the crass quips, the self-defence mechanism concealing such inadequacy...
- James Bond: [holding up his Walther P99] My self-defence mechanism's right here.
- Gustav Graves: He died chasing a dream. Isn't that the way to go?
- James Bond: I'd rather not go at all.
- General Moon: I don't know you.
- Gustav Graves: You always found it difficult to accept me. That made my exile easier to bear, but, I never forgot what you taught me: In war, the victorious strategist only seeks battle...
- General Moon, Gustav Graves: After the victory has been won.
- Gustav Graves: You see, father, I remember my Art of War.
- Gustav Graves: [fencing with Bond] Since you've upped the stakes, let's up the weapons, shall we? Let's do this the old-fashioned way - first blood drawn from the torso!
- [He grabs two swords and throws one to Bond]
- Gustav Graves: Look, parachutes for the both of us!
- [throws one out the window]
- Gustav Graves: Whoops. Not anymore!
- Reporter: We've been hearing rumors about the Icarus space program. What's the big secret?
- Gustav Graves: It's not a secret, it's a surprise.
- Buckingham Palace Reporter: Are you going to try out for the British fencing team? We hear you have been training furiously.
- Gustav Graves: I never get furious. As we say in fencing, "What's the point?"
- Buckingham Palace Reporter: After an entrance like that you can't be surprised you've been called a self-publicizing adrenaline junkie, can you?
- Gustav Graves: I prefer the term adventurer.
- Gustav Graves: Glad you could make it, Mr. Bond. How did you like my run?
- James Bond: Like a man on the edge of losing control.
- Gustav Graves: It's only by being on the edge that we know who we really are, under the skin.