No Time to Die (2021)

Ralph Fiennes: M

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• M : Shut up, Q. I know he's staying with you.

• M : The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

• M : I can't pretend there weren't some sorry faces when you left us, Bond, but you fell so far off the grid that we thought you must be dead. Now, learning that you were, in fact, alive and well, and... working for the CIA, well... Well, that really was a blow.

  James Bond : Well, they just asked so nicely.

• M : The world is arming faster than we can respond. Where's 007?

• M : Which one's Bond?

  Q : The Psi! The, er, Trident thingy...

• M : [to Bond]  If you've nothing left to give, you are irrelevant. You've done your bit and we thank you for your service, again. Goodbye. Moneypenny, send in 007.

• James Bond : And after Blofeld, what do they want?

  James Bond : Well, it's hard to say. I mean, I would imagine world leaders, innocent civilians, freedom, you know, that sort of thing.

  M : Oh, good, well, just the usual.

  James Bond : Just the usual.

• James Bond : My God, you're thirsty at the moment.

  M : You have no right to speak to me that way. You have no right to make insinuations about my judgment.

• James Bond : Why didn't you shut it down? Why didn't you shut Heracles down?

  M : I answer to the interests of my country, not you.

• M : You've got your wish. Go to Blofeld and see what you can get out of him. And find that cockroach Obruchev.

• M : We used to be able to get into a room with the enemy, we could look him in the eye. And now the - the enemy is just floating in the ether. We don't even know what they're after.

• M : I had to exercise my judgment.

  James Bond : Your judgment is the problem.