Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Judi Dench: M

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• Admiral Roebuck : With all due respect, M, sometimes I don't think you have the balls for this job.

  M : Perhaps. But the advantage is, I don't have to think with them all the time.

• James Bond : [Bond says goodbye in Danish to Moneypenny on the phone while making love to his language tutor]  Goodbye my sweet.

  Moneypenny : You always were a cunning linguist, James.

  Moneypenny : [M walks up from behind Moneypenny]  Don't ask.

  M : Don't tell.

• [Bond's transmission has shown a known terrorist holding a missing American GPS encoding device] 

  M : I wonder with what'll the CIA be more upset - that they lost it, or that we found it?

• [the Royal Navy has launched a cruise missile at a terrorist site Bond is surveying - Robinson gets on communications line with Bond] 

  Charles Robinson : White knight, 4 minutes to impact. Get out of there.

  [pause] 

  Charles Robinson : Yes, dammit, I know what it is, it's on the screen in front of me. It's a jeep in front of a plane! Now get the hell OUT of there!

  Admiral Roebuck : What the hell is going on?

  Charles Robinson : [to Bond]  You will NOT wait! That is an order!

  Admiral Roebuck : What is your man waiting for?

  Charles Robinson : White Knight?

  [Robinson reacts with horror to something on the screen] 

  Charles Robinson : Oh my God, those are Soviet SB-5 nuclear torpedoes! If the cruise hits them...

  M : Order them to abort the missile!

  Admiral Roebuck : [picks up phone]  HMS Chester, urgent, Abort missile! Abort missile!

• M : I believe you once had a relationship with Carver's wife, Paris.

  James Bond : That was a long time ago, M... before she was married. I didn't realize it was public knowledge.

  Moneypenny : Queen and country, James.

  M : Your job is to find out whether Carver or someone in his organization sent that ship off course, and why. Use your relationship with Mrs. Carver, if necessary.

  James Bond : I doubt if she'll remember me.

  M : Remind her. Then pump her for information.

  Moneypenny : You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.

  James Bond : If only that were true of you and I, Moneypenny.

• M : How much do you know about Elliot Carver, 007?

  James Bond : Worldwide media baron. Able to topple governments with a single broadcast.