Movie  1983
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[after Bond has escaped]
Kamal Khan: Mr. Bond is indeed of a very rare breed... soon to be made extinct.
Jim Fanning: [after Bond bids for the egg] Have you gone mad?
Bond: Let's see how badly he wants it.
[Q's mechanized version of the "Indian Rope Trick" malfunctions]
James Bond: Having trouble getting it up, Q?
[Vijay has just stopped some bad guys with his tennis racket]
Vijay: Game, set and match!
Front Desk Clerk: I hope you have a pleasant stay.
[Bond eyes a beauty nearby who smiles at him]
Bond: I'm, ah, sure I will.
[the second twin is trying to kill Bond with a knife on the circus train. He has cornered Bond against a car]
Twin Two: And this... for my brother...
[He charges Bond, who grabs his knife hand & steers him towards a door. The 2 men crash through the door and Bond gets the knife away. He throws the knife, which sticks in the man's chest. The man grunts & keels over]
James Bond: And that's for 009!
[flees]

M: Remember, 007, you're on your own.
James Bond: Well, thank you, sir. That's a great comfort.
Kamal Kahn: Englishman. Likes eggs, preferably Faberge, and dice, preferably loaded.
Gobinda: The Englishman has escaped!
Kamal Khan: He won't go very far. We'll track him.
[first lines]
James Bond: You didn't tell me there was going to be this much security.
Bianca: They moved the flight up to this afternoon.
James Bond: Well, we're going to have to go ahead as planned anyway.
[Bianca hands an ID badge with the name 'Luis Toro' to Bond]
James Bond: Toro. Sounds like a load of bull.
James Bond: Double sixes. Fancy that!
James Bond: We've got company.
Vijay: No problem, this is a company car.
Q: [being kissed by Octopussy's girls after knocking out a bandit] Cut it out! We don't have time for that! Later perhaps.
[Bond is dragged from a river onto a tour boat]
Woman on Tour Boat: Are you with our group?
James Bond: No, ma'am, I'm with the economy tour!
Kamal Khan: Spend the money quickly, Mister Bond.
Q: Dissolves all metals.
James Bond: Wonderful for poison pen letters...
Q: Pay attention, 007!
[last lines]
[Bond is in traction]
Octopussy: I wish...
James Bond: What?
Octopussy: I wish you weren't in such a weakened condition.
[Bond releases himself from traction]
Octopussy: Oh, James.
[Bond kisses Octopussy passionately]
Octopussy: James!
Vijay: Is he still there?
Q: You must be joking! Double-0 seven on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn!
Orlov: Leave that! Let's go!
James Bond: Let's stay! Sit down, put your hands on that box! Now, why is that bomb on the train?
Orlov: Who are you?
James Bond: I'm British Secret Service.
James Bond: [handing a wad of Indian cash to his accomplice] That should keep you in curry for a few weeks.
Kamal Khan: [preparing to leave the circus, where a bomb is placed] General, excuse me. I have some traveling arrangements to make. Enjoy the show.
US general: Thank you.
US aide: I'm sure the general will get a big blast out of this.
Kamal Khan: I know he won't be disappointed.
Magda: He suggests a trade. The egg for your life.
James Bond: Well, I heard the price of eggs was up, but isn't that a little high?
[Bond and Vijay are being chased by evil dudes in a car]
[Bond and Q are floating in a hot air balloon]
James Bond: I trust you can handle this contraption, Q?
Q: It goes by hot air.
James Bond: Oh, then you can.
James Bond: [looking at the tattoo on Magda's back] What is that?
Magda: That's my little octopussy.
Magda: I guess this is good night.
James Bond: I could come in for a nightcap.
[Gobinda puts a hand in front of Magda's door]
James Bond: Some other time perhaps.
James Bond: [Gobinda walks Bond back to his room] I don't suppose you'd care for a nightcap?
James Bond: [handing Q his coat] Do you think you can help me? Someone seems to have stuck a knife in my wallet.
Q: Oh, and missed you, did they? What a pity!
[Confronting James Bond]
Kamal Khan: You seem to have this nasty habit of surviving.
James Bond: You know what they say about the fittest.
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Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made Octopussy, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in the Bond outing The Man with the Golden Gun--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her crafty partner in crime. There's an island populated only by women, plus a fantastic sequence with a hand-to-hand fight that happens on a plane--and on top of a plane. The film even has an extra emotional punch, since this time out 007 is not only following the orders of Her Majesty's Secret Service, but he is also exacting a personal revenge: a fellow double-0 agent has been killed. Two Bond films were actually released in 1983 within a few months of each other, as Octopussy was followed by Sean Connery's comeback in Never Say Never Again. The success of both pictures proved that there was still plenty of mileage left in the old license to kill, though Moore had one more workout--A View to a Kill--before hanging it up. And that title? The franchise had already used up the titles to Ian Fleming's novels, so Octopussy was taken from a lesser-known Fleming short story. --Robert Horton