Sean Connery famous quotes

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

#Attitude #Cheer #Views

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

#Want #Scotsmen #Englishmen

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

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

#Heart #Keys #Unexpected

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

#Heart #Writing #Thinking

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

#Art #Believe #Opportunity

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

#Ties #Hatred #Hated

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

#Love #Boyfriend #Valentines Day

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

#Golf #Oscars #Honest

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

#Surfing #Environment #Backgrounds

Some age. Others mature.
-- Sean Connery

#Bad Ass #Age #Mature

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

#Differences #Ties #Able

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

#Character #Long #Care

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

#Wine #Red #Culinary

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

#Morning #Men #Challenges

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

#Moving #World #Want

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

#Golf #Wife #Littles

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

#Scotland #World #Should

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

#Girl #Drinking #Wine

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

#Retirement #Indiana #Film

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

#Boys #Land #My Boys

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

#Sadistic

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

#Drug #Rooms #Hospitality

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

#Golf #Swimming #Swings

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

#School #Scotland #Navy

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

#Thinking #Politics #Privilege

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

#Light #People #Hollywood

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

#Political #Target #Opinion

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

#Wife #Speak #My Wife

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

#Distance #Believe #Scotland

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

#Peaceful #Dull #Safe

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

#Jobs #People #Brain

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

#Giving #Three #Chance

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.
-- Sean Connery

#Impossible #Nothing Is Impossible

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

#Running #People #Four

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

#Fire #Scots

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

#Politician #Intention

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

#Thinking

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

#America #Columbus #Remember

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

#Long #Enthusiasm #Want

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
-- Sean Connery

#Martini

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

#Men #Joy #Fear Nothing

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

#Golf #Brotherhood #Terrible

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

#Fear #Joy #Fear Nothing

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

#Drinking #Able #Drink

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

#Challenges #Motivated #Keep You Motivated

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

#Book #Numbers #Film

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
-- Sean Connery

#Beer #Two #Able

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

#Justice #Waiting #Want

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

#Men #Faces #Old Man

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

#Thinking #Knighthood #Fantastic

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

#Scotland #Tin #Fantasy

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

#Government #Years #Scotland

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

#Would Be #Actors

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

#Scotland #Office #Company

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

#Alaska #Wire #Want

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

#More Time #Wells #Deserve

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

#Departure #Accents

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

#Nice #Thinking #Talking

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

#Reality #Thinking #Chance

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

#Baseball

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

#Fighting #Rooms #Disorder

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

#Happiness #Laughter #Joy

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

#Golf #Games #Important

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

#Pain #Children #Acceptance

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

#Thinking #Decision #Down And

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

#Men #Thinking #Hitting

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

#Scotland #Done #Benefits

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

#Now And Then #Worst #Slap

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

#America #England #Pay

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

#Records #Helpful #Posters

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

#Bullets