"Bars are hard (for me to go to), but that's more because of mobile phones. I'll do autographs all day long, and I'll even do a picture at the end of an evening. But if I'm being photographed all night long in a bar, that pisses me off," the actor, 47, said.
"If you ask, I may say yes, but come up to me and say, 'Would you like to take a photograph with me?' If you're sneaking photographs of me... It's human nature, you're sneaking something! But people don't see it as a problem. Maybe I'm delusional," he said.
"There were phones back then, but nobody used the cameras," he said of 2006, when he first took on the iconic role in "Casino Royale".
"Or there was a rule, if someone did it, you'd be like. My wife is the best in the world at all that, she'll just turn to them and go, 'No, thank you very much', and they're like, 'Okay'," he added.
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