Judi Dench credited as playing...
M
- James Bond: Are these pictures live?
- M: Unlike the American government, we prefer not to get our bad news from CNN.
- M: You don't like me, Bond. You don't like my methods. You think I'm an accountant, a bean counter more interested in my numbers than your instincts.
- James Bond: The thought had occurred to me.
- M: Good, because I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you.
- James Bond: Point taken.
- M: Not quite 007. If you think for one moment I don't have the balls to send a man out to die, your instincts are dead wrong. I have no compunction about sending you to your death. But, I won't do it on a whim. Even with your cavalier attitude towards life.
- Bill Tanner: Seems your hunch was right, 007. It's too bad the Evil Queen of Numbers wouldn't let you play it...
- [M walks in]
- M: You were saying?
- Bill Tanner: No, no, I was just... just um...
- M: Good. Because if I want sarcasm, Mr Tanner, I'll talk to my children, thank you very much.
- M: [to Bond] If you think for one moment I don't have the balls to send a man out to die, your instincts are dead wrong. I have no compunction about sending you to your death. But, I won't do it on a whim. Even with your cavalier attitude towards life.
- M: Would you care for a drink?
- James Bond: Thank you. Your predecessor kept some cognac on the top...
- M: I prefer bourbon. Ice?
- James Bond: Yes.
- M: What else do we know about the Janus syndicate?
- James Bond: Top flight arms dealers headquartered in St. Petersburg. First outfit to restock the Iraqis during the Gulf War. The head man's unreliably described. No photographs. The woman - Onatopp - is our only confirmed contact.
- James Bond: What do you think the Russians are using the base for?
- Bill Tanner: Well, at one point we suspected Severnaya might be the ground station for a secret space-based weapons program called GoldenEye, but...
- M: Our statistical analysis saw they had neither the finance nor technology to implement it.
- James Bond: Numbers were never my strong suit.