- Ian Fleming: You'll have to be clear about one thing. I'm not as tough nor as strong as Commander Bond.
- CBS interviewer: President Kennedy greatly admires your work. I understand From Russia With Love is one of his ten favourite novels.
- Ian Fleming: He was good enough to tell me so in Washington, yes.
- CBS interviewer: Can you confirm the widespread reports that you wrote the bluepints for the Central Intelligence Agency?
- Ian Fleming: Forgive me I'm not in a position to confirm any such thing.
- Ian Fleming: We were involved in the... secret world.
- CBS interviewer: As a secret agent?
- Ian Fleming: The secret agent is the one person in the world who will never tell you he's a secret agent.
- Ian Fleming: It's very hard work killing someone with a sandbag.
- Ann Fleming: Noel always said being killed by a sandbag is like adultery. You see it coming, can't avoid it, and it leaves one with a dreadful headache.
- Loelia: So, who will dear commander Bond's adversaries be?
- Ian Fleming: Rich, dominant, sadistic tyrants.
- Ian Fleming: It's a highly sophisticated method of calming women who get too excited. Shake them, never stir them.
- Ivar Bryce: Take a good look at the man with the pretty face. When the Nazis overran France he quit Monte Carlo, Deauville and Cannes, and came over here to New York City with his Greek syndicate. He's a mathematical genius. One of the few men in the world who can remember exactly where every single one of the 312 cards are in each shoe of baccarat.