Curd Jürgens credited as playing...
Stromberg
- James Bond: Don't you miss the outside world?
- Stromberg: For me, this is all the world. There is beauty... there is ugliness... and there is death.
- Stromberg: Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system. Thanks primarily to you, I am happy to say that the first phase of our operation has met with considerable success. I have instructed my assistant to have paid into your Swiss bank accounts the sum of ten million dollars each.
- Prof. Markovitz: Thank you, sir.
- Dr. Bechmann: Thank you indeed.
- Stromberg: And that, I think, concludes our business. Before you go however, I very much regret to inform you that a dangerous development has recently been brought to my notice. Someone has been attempting to sell the plans of our tracking project to competing world powers; someone intimately associated with the project.
- James Bond: ...I said, where's Anya? Your time's running out, Stromberg!
- Stromberg: Yours, too, Mr. Bond... and faster than you think.
- [shoots an explosive bolt from his "table gun", just missing 007, who then aims his own pistol up the table]
- James Bond: You missed, Stromberg. Should've checked your barrel.
- [fires back into Stromberg's weapon; the far end of the table explodes in the villain's face, with lethal results]
- James Bond: Where's Anya?
- Stromberg: Well, well... a British agent in love with a Russian agent. Détente, indeed.
- James Bond: [Bond, posing as a marine biologist, examines a model of Atlantis] An underwater city. Well, everyone needs to have their dreams.
- Stromberg: No dream, Mr. Sterling. Soon a reality.
- Stromberg: By noon, the submarines Ranger and Potemkin will have reached their designated firing positions. Within minutes, New York City and Moscow will cease to exist. Global devastation will follow, and a new era will begin.
- James Bond: All right, Stromberg; you've made your point. Now, how much do you want?
- Stromberg: How much of *what*, Mr. Bond?
- James Bond: What's your price for NOT launching those nuclear missiles?
- Stromberg: [chuckles] Mr. Bond, I'm not interested in extortion. I intend to change the face of history.
- Major Anya Amasova: By destroying the world?
- Stromberg: By *creating* a world, a new and beautiful world beneath the sea. Today's civilization, as we know it, is corrupt and decedent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely - accelerating the process.
- Major Anya Amasova: That rationalizes thermonuclear genocide feebly at best.
- Stromberg: For that, Major, I will accept the judgement of posterity.
- Major Anya Amasova: [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE] I can give it to you here and now: "Karl Stromberg was a mass murderer who made Joseph Stalin seem like a common playground hooligan."
- James Bond: [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE] Well said, but I suspect he's heard it all before.
- [With Bach playing in the background, Stromberg drops his beautiful-but-disloyal assistant from an elevator into a water tank, the sole occupant of which is a large tiger shark. The shark moves in to attack]
- Stromberg: [on loudspeaker] It was you who betrayed me. You had access to all the information. Now you will pay the penalty.
- [looks on from several view-screens as the girl swims for her life, in vain]
