Sean Connery Quotes

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

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

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 don't know anything about baseball.

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

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

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

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

Some age. Others mature.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

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.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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'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 think I'll ever act again.

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.

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

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

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

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.

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

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