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Daniel Craig is 'over' James Bond, shares advice for next 007

Daniel Craig, the British actor who will be appearing as James Bond for the fourth time in Spectre released later this year, has told an interviewer he would rather slit his wrists than play 007 again.

Actor says his 'Bond bank is dry'

Daniel Craig appears for the fourth time as James Bond in the upcoming film Spectre. (Jonathan Olley/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.)

Daniel Craig, the British actor who will be appearing as James Bond for the fourth time in Spectrelater this year, has told an interviewer he would rather slit his wrists than play 007 again.

"I'd rather break this glass and slit my wrists," Craig, 47, told an interviewer for Britain's Time Outentertainment magazine, when asked over breakfast if he would sign up for the role again.

"No, not at the moment. Not at all. That's fine. I'm over it at the moment. All I want to do is move on," Craig said in the interview which was posted on Time Out's website this week.

The magazine says the interview was conducted in July, just after filming on the 24th Bond film was completed.

'The Bond bank is dry'

Craig said that living up to the image Bond has to project is onerous, and he had put everything into the latest one.

"Every idea I've had for a Bond movie, I've stuck into this one. It's gone in. The Bond bank is dry. If you're asking me what would I do with another Bond movie? I haven't a clue. Go into space? Let's do it! They already did it. Let's do it again."

Daniel Craig has advice for whoever follows him in the iconic role, portrayed in earlier incarnations by Sean Connery, at left, and Roger Moore: 'Don't be sh-t.'

The actor added that he does not care who plays Bond next as long as it's not him.

"Good luck to them! All I care about is that if I stop doing these things we've left it in a good place and people pick it up and make it better. Make it better, that's all."

And his advice for the next Bond?

"Don't be sh-t!"

Spectrewill be released in Britain and Ireland on Oct. 26 and in the rest of the world in early November.