Sean Connery Quotes & Sayings

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. — Sean Connery

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

I've never kept a record of anything. — Sean Connery

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

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

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic. — Sean Connery

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

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

Personally I give us ... one chance of three. — Sean Connery

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

Some age, others mature. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something. — Sean Connery

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

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. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

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

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. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

[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. — Sean Connery

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

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. — Sean Connery

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

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable. — Sean Connery

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

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

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." — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Sean Connery

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

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! — Sean Connery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped. — Sean Connery

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

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. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

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

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

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. — Sean Connery

A martini. Shaken, not stirred. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. — Sean Connery

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

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

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. — Sean Connery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Sean Connery

I don't know anything about baseball. — Sean Connery

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen. — Sean Connery

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them. — Sean Connery

I don't think I'll ever act again. — Sean Connery

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

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

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

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. — Sean Connery

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. — 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. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

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. — Sean Connery

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. — Sean Connery

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

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'. — Sean Connery

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! — Sean Connery

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 — Sean Connery

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