Thunderball (1965)

Desmond Llewelyn: 'Q'

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Quotes 

• 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.

• Q : Try to be a little less than your frivolous self, 007.

• Bond : [Bond sees Q enter the equipment room]  Oh no.

  Q : Ah, double-oh seven.

  Bond : [sarcastically]  What a wonderful surprise.

  Q : Well, for me, too. I must say, I find this business of equipping you in the field, on the run as it were, highly irregular. Here we have a Geiger counter. Useful and unobtrusive. The sweep hand takes the radioactivity count. It's waterproof, of course.

  Bond : But of course.

• Q : It closes to a convenient pocket size.

  Bond : Assuming one has a convenient pocket.

• Q : Now here's a miniature Very pistol, which fires a bright red flare, a distress signal. You should keep in on you, day and night.

  Bond : I resent that remark.

  [Bond prepares to fire the pistol] 

  Q : Here! Look, do you mind?

• Q : Now pay attention. A recently developed, harmless, radioactive device.

  Bond : Harmless.

  Q : Which sends out a homing signal to a special receiver.

  Bond : Mm! Well what am I supposed to do with this?

  Q : Obviously you... swallow it.

  Bond : Now?