Sean Connery Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

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

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.

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

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

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

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

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

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

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.

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.

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

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

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

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

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

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

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

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

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

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

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

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again.

I have a great respect for money. I know how hard it is to earn and keep, especially with our diabolical taxes in Britain. I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week.

His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962.

My own guide is always what I find interesting. If it's something that makes me think: 'I'd like to see this' then that's the yardstick I apply. Obviously that doesn't satisfy everybody.

I was there for two years and working on that show is still one of the happiest times of my life,

What we really need is to get back some of the optimism we had five years ago (in the Middle East peace process) and I'm sure there's going to be a change in the climate within a week.

I've been very fortunate and have never had any real problems with people. But I've also had the guts to tell them, 'you're a bore'.

I've always loved woman. Blonde, brunette, but preferably foreign. They're more attractive than Britons.

There's nothing wrong with a little anxiety to keep people on their toes. But anybody who's professional has no problems with me.

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

I never disliked Bond, as some have thought. Creating a character like that does take a certain craft. It's simply natural to seek other roles.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - 'but you're not young, you're 40.

Im incredibly lucky to still be around, doing all the things I want to do and getting extremely well paid for it. Theres a parallel with golfa lot of it is in the mind, and the moment you start to lose the enthusiasm or appetite, it affects your judgments and decisions. And then you stop performing well. I think enthusiasm and appetite are more important than anything.

As far as I'm concerned, Bond is over and done with. You need a younger actor now, about thirty-five - Mel Gibson perhaps . . .

It runs the gamut to the $5,000 custom pieces. If they want it matted in ostrich hide, we can do it.

It makes you wonder at times what exactly is the criteria to qualify.

His character and my character were kind of the perfect combination to get laughs.

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'.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

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

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

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

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

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

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

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!

Some age. Others mature.

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

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.

I did many other things before I ever got into the movies. I've been in so many businesses, it's a joke. All of them totally unsuited to me. Selling used cars. Running a club in London.

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.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.

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

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.

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.

I don't know anything about baseball.

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

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

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

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.

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

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 can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

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

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

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

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

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.