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"But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice"

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“But I do know people that have stalkers and it’s not nice” lands with the bluntness of someone trying to puncture glamour. Craig isn’t performing wit here; he’s refusing it. The sentence is almost aggressively ordinary: “people,” “stalkers,” “not nice.” That plain language is the point. In a celebrity ecosystem that routinely turns privacy invasion into trivia and flirtation, he sidesteps the usual dance of coy anecdotes and instead offers a moral baseline so obvious it feels like an accusation. If you’re tempted to romanticize obsession, he’s telling you to grow up.

The “But” at the top signals a rebuttal to a prior frame, likely a question that tried to package stalking as a weird perk of fame, or at least as a predictable occupational hazard. Craig’s move is to relocate the issue from himself (where it could become spectacle) to “people that I know,” which does two things: it lends credibility without name-dropping victims, and it quietly suggests how common this is in his world. He won’t give you the story; he’ll give you the boundary.

Subtextually, it’s a minor act of resistance against the press-and-fan economy that treats access as entitlement. Coming from an actor associated with Bond - a franchise that sells sleek control and invulnerability - the line reads even more telling: the real threat isn’t the cinematic villain, it’s the mundane persistence of someone who won’t take no for an answer. Craig’s restraint is the message. The refusal to sensationalize becomes its own indictment.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Craig, Daniel. (2026, January 17). But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-i-do-know-people-that-have-stalkers-and-its-41527/

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Craig, Daniel. "But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-i-do-know-people-that-have-stalkers-and-its-41527/.

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"But I do know people that have stalkers and it's not nice." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-i-do-know-people-that-have-stalkers-and-its-41527/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Daniel Craig (born March 2, 1968) is a Actor from United Kingdom.

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