121 Thunderball Quotes (2024)

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Fiona: [after Bond finds her in the bathtub in his hotel room] Since you're here, would you mind giving me something to put on?
[Bond casually hands Fiona her shoes]

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[Placing Fiona's body in a chair after she is shot on the dance floor]
James Bond: Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead.

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James Bond: My dear, uncooperative Domino.
Domino: How do you know that? How do you know my friends call me Domino?
James Bond: It's on the bracelet on your ankle.
Domino: So... what sharp little eyes you've got.
James Bond: Wait 'til you get to my teeth.

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Domino: Vargas's behind you.
James Bond: Really...
Domino: He must have followed us.
James Bond: [shoots Vargas with a spear gun] I think he got the point.
Domino: It should have been Largo.

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Pat Fearing: Funny-looking bruise. A fall?
James Bond: A poker, in the hands of a widow.
Pat Fearing: Really? I'd have thought you were just the type for a widow.
James Bond: Not this one. He didn't like me at all.

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Fiona: You look pale, Mr. Bond. I hope I didn't frighten you.
Bond: Well you see, I've always been a nervous passenger.
Fiona: Some men just don't like to be driven.
Bond: No, some men just don't like to be taken for a ride.

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[Largo dies]
Domino: I'm glad I killed him.
James Bond: *You're* glad?

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[after leaving an Irrigation Therapy Room]
Bond: See you later, irrigator.

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Emilio Largo: For you? Of course. Vargas does not drink, does not smoke, does not make love. What do you *do*, Vargas?

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[after making love to the evil Fiona Volpe]
James Bond: My dear girl, don't flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for King and country. You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?
Fiona: But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a women and she stars to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents,

then immediately returns to the side of right and virtue... .
[she steps on Bond's foot]
Fiona: ... but not this one!

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Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Number 11.
SPECTRE Number 11: Distribution of Red China narcotics in the United States: two million three hundred thousand dollars, collected by Number 9 and myself.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Two million three? Our expectations were considerably... higher, Number 11.
SPECTRE Number 11:

Competition from Latin America. Prices are down.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: I anticipated that factor. Are you quite sure all monies have been accounted for by yourself and Number 9?
SPECTRE Number 11: To the penny, Number 1.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: On the contrary, I have satisfied myself that one of you is clearly guilty of

embezzlement. SPECTRE's a dedicated fraternity whose strength lies in the absolute integrity of its members. The culprit is known to me. I have decided on the appropriate action.
[SPECTRE Number 9 is electrocuted in his seat]

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[to the shark that almost bit him]
James Bond: You can tell of the one that got away.

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Emilio Largo: Pull!
[hits the clay pigeon]
Emilio Largo: What could be easier?
Bond: Huh! Perhaps you'd call one for me.
Emilio Largo: Of course. Pull!
Bond: Seems terribly difficult.
[hits the clay pigeon while shooting from the hip]
Bond: No, it

isn't, is it?
Emilio Largo: No...

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Q: Now here's something I want you to use with special care. With special care.
James Bond: Everything you give me...
Q: You treat it with equal contempt. Yes, I know, but that's an underwater camera. It takes eight pictures in rapid succession by pressing that button now.
James Bond: Is that clever?

Q: If it can take pictures in the dark with an infrared film, yes.

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Miss Moneypenny: Uh uh. In the conference room. Something pretty big. Every double-oh man in Europe's been rushed in. *And* the Home Secretary, too.
James Bond: Somebody's probably lost a dog.

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[after making love to Pat, Bond sees something suspicious on the grounds, and gets up to investigate]
Pat Fearing: James, where are you going?
James Bond: Oh, nowhere. I just thought I'd take a little, uh... exercise.
Pat Fearing: You must be joking.

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Felix Leiter: Well, hello Double-Oh...
[James slugs Felix to shut him up, then slugs the bad guy hiding in the shower]
Felix Leiter: Fine way to treat the CIA!
James Bond: I'm sorry about that, Felix, but you were about to say double-O seven. Here.
[James gives Felix the bad guy's gun]
Felix

Leiter: Well, James, did you kill him?
James Bond: You know me better than that.

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James Bond: That gun, it looks more fitting for a woman.
Emilio Largo: You know much about guns, Mr. Bond?
James Bond: No, but I know a little about women.
[Bond and Largo spot Domino eavesdropping]