Goldfinger Quotes

Goldfinger (1964), directed by Guy Hamilton, screenplay by Richard Maibaum, is the third of the James Bond series of movies, based upon the character created in novels by Ian Fleming. In it, Bond works to stop Auric Goldfinger, a gold-obsessed smuggler who plans to invade the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

Quotes

[Bond pushes a killer into a bathtub, then knocks an electrical device into the water, electrocuting him.]

Bond: Shocking. Positively shocking.

[From the theme song, also titled "Goldfinger".]

Shirley Bassey:

For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her

It's the kiss of death from Mister

Goldfinger

Pretty girl, beware of this heart of gold:

This heart is cold!

He loves only gold!

Only gold!

Bond: A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

• Note: ranked #98 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Bond: My dear girl, there are some things that just arent' done! Such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit! That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

[Q shows Bond the homing device on the Aston Martin.]

Bond: Ingenious! Useful, too. Allow a man to stop off for a quick one en route.

Q: It has not been perfected out of years of patient research entirely for that purpose, 007. And incidentally, we'd appreciate its return, along with all your other equipment â" intact for once when you return from the field.

Bond: Oh, you'd be surprised the amount of wear and tear that goes on out there in the field.

Q: Now this one I'm particularly keen about. You see the gear lever here? Now, if you take the top off, you will find a little red button. Whatever you do, don't touch it.

Bond: Yeah, why not?

Q: Because you'll release this section of the roof, and engage and then fire the passenger ejector seat. Whish!

Bond: Ejector seat? You're joking!

Q: I never joke about my work, 007.

[While following Goldfinger, Bond is distracted by a woman driving a convertible, but then returns to the homing signal.]

Bond: Discipline, 007. Discipline.

[Goldfinger shows off his industrial laser by having it slowly track toward Bond, lying prone and lashed to slab of gold.]

Bond: I think you've made your point, Goldfinger. Thank you for the demonstration.

Goldfinger: Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr Bond â" it may be your last. The purpose of our two previous encounters is now very clear to me. I do not intend to be distracted by another. Goodnight, Mr Bond. [walks away]

Bond: Do you expect me to talk?

Goldfinger: [looks back, laughing] No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die! There's nothing about you that I don't already know!

[After his laser encounter, Bond awakens to find a woman staring at him.]

Bond: Who are you?

Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore.

[Bond looks away, and smiles.]

Bond: I must be dreaming.

[On the jet, Pussy Galore holds a gun on Bond, but he is being cooperative.]

Bond: Oh, besides, there's always so much going on around Mr Goldfinger. Well, I wouldn't dream of not accepting his, uh... hospitality.

Pussy Galore: He'll be very glad to see you, too.

[She brushes his clean-shaven face with the barrel of her gun.]

Pussy Galore: You like close shaves, don't you?

[At a Kentucky airfield, Bond observes a squad of planes flying in formation.]

Bond: Talented chaps!

Pussy Galore: They should be â" I trained them. Come on.

Bond: You're a woman of many parts, Pussy.

. . .

Bond: You know, he kills little girls like you.

Pussy Galore: Little boys, too.

Goldfinger: Man has climbed Mount Everest. Gone to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the Moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour... except crime!

Bond: You'll kill 60,000 people uselessly.

Goldfinger: Hah. American motorists kill that many every two years.

[Goldfinger gestures to a crushed car sitting in the back of a pickup truck.]

Goldfinger: Forgive me, Mr Bond, but, uh, I must arrange to separate my gold from the late Mr Solo.

Bond: As you said, he had a pressing engagement.

[Pussy Galore, having changed into tight pants and a low-cut blouse, takes Bond's arm for a walk.]

Pussy Galore: Well? How 'bout it, handsome? Don't you think it's time we got to know each other socially?

Bond: Well, the new Miss Galore. Where do you hide your gold knuckles in this outfit?

Pussy Galore: Oh, I, uh... never carry weapons after business hours.

Bond: Eh? So you're off-duty.

Pussy Galore: I'm completely defenseless!

[Bond takes a look at her ample bosom.]

Bond: So am I.

[Felix Leiter catches up to Bond after the latter manages to get Oddjob to electrocute himself.]

Felix: You okay, James? Where's your butler friend?

Bond: Oh, he blew a fuse.

[Bond looks at the disarmed bomb.]

Bond: Three more ticks and Mr Goldfinger would've hit the jackpot. Did you get him?

Felix: Not yet, but he won't get far.

Bond: And Pussy?

Felix: She helped us switch the gas in the canisters. By the way, what made her call Washington?

Bond: I must have appealed to her maternal instincts.

Bond: Special plane, lunch at the White House... how come?

Felix: The President wants to thank you personally.

Bond: Oh, it was nothing, really.

Felix: I know that, but he doesn't.

[After Goldfinger is sucked out of the plummeting jet, Bond makes his way to the cockpit.]

Pussy Galore: What happened? Where's Goldfinger?

Bond: Playing his golden harp.

Colonel Smithers: Have a little more of this...rather disappointing brandy.

Major cast

• Sean Connery â" James Bond
• Honor Blackman â" Pussy Galore
• Gert Fröbe â" Auric Goldfinger
• Cec Linder â" Felix Leiter
• Desmond Llewelyn â" Q
• Shirley Bassey â" "Goldfinger" singer

External links

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Goldfinger (film)

• Goldfinger quotes at the Internet Movie Database