Sean Connery Quotes

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.

Personally I give us ... one chance of three.

My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.

Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.

The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game."

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Some age, others mature.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

I've never kept a record of anything.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

I find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public institution.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

I don't know anything about baseball.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

I'm fed up with the idiots ... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.