Quotes By Sean Connery

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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've never kept a record of anything.

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.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities 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 don't know anything about baseball.

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

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

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.