Sean Connery Quotes

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

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

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

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

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 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.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

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

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

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

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