Sean Connery Quotes

"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."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Government, People, Scotland, Wrong, Years)

"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
- Sean Connery
(Related: Difference)

"There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Fantasy, Scotland)

"I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Wife, English, Now)

"If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus."
- Sean Connery
(Related: America, Columbus)

"It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Cities, Madness, Now)

"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
(Related: God, Faith, Fear, Devil, Laughter)

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Love, May, World)

"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
(Related: Being)

"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Man, Old)

"Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Scotland)

"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Actor)

"When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Scotland)

"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
(Related: Women, Want)

"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
(Related: Golf, Open)

"I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Drugs)

"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
(Related: Wife, Chance, English, Golf)

"I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Women)

"I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Navy, School, Scotland)

"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Privilege)

"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
(Related: Life, Time, Want, World)

"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
(Related: Now)

"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
(Related: Disorder, Fight)

"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
(Related: Man, Woman, Wrong)

"I don't know anything about baseball."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Baseball)

"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
(Related: Character, Care, Interest)

"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
(Related: Want, Will)

"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Fire, Irish)

"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Life, Environment, Question)

"To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Departure, English)