Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Sean Connery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've never kept a record of anything.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

Some age, others mature.

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.

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

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

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I don't know anything about baseball.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

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

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

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

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

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

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

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

Some age. Others mature.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.