Sean Connery - biography

“I enjoy the excitement of working on a well-crewed and exciting picture.  It’s like a microcosm of society that really works.  Because nothing works anywhere else.”

“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.”

“Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.”

“I’ve honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up.  He said I had the heart of a young man - ‘but you’re not young, you’re 40’.”

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

“Robin and Marian was supposed to be called The Death of Robin Hood but Americans don’t like heroes who die or anything that might smack of not being a victory.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I don’t think you can take it too seriously.  Oh, it’s very flattering - but The Sexiest Man Alive...?  There are few sexy dead ones.”

“Like most Celts, I’m moody.”

“To some people I am rude and aggressive - they provoke about 50 per cent of it by their attitude to me.  I can’t go around with a welcome mat around my neck.”

“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.”

“I don’t think a single other role changes a man quite so much as Bond.  It’s a cross, a privilege, a joke, a challenge.  And it’s as bloody intrusive as a nightmare.”

“I have always hated that damn James Bond.  I’d like to kill him.”

“Ian Fleming?  A terrible snob but very good company.”

“My Scots accent was stronger in this new Bond film [Never Say Never Again] than in the others.  I suppose you get more relaxed the nearer you get to the grave.”

“Roger [Moore] comes in the humour door and I go out it.”

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

“When Dr No went to Japan, they translated it as No Need For Any Doctors.”

“With his clothing and his cars and his wines and his women, Bond is a kind of present day surival kit.  Men would like to imitate him - or at least his success - and women and excited by him.”

“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 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.”

“To get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social.  Otherwise you’ll end up being devaoured.”

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

“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.”

“I never ask anybody what they earn and don’t tell anybody what I earn.  I want all I can get.  I’m entitled to it.  I don’t believe all this stuff about starving in a garret or being satisfied with artistic appreciation only.”

“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.”

“The British have always been so anti-analysis - in every sense of the word.”

“I’d always had a terrible fight to get work in Britain on account of my Edinburgh accent.  And I still haven’t lost it completely.  I won’t - I don’t think it’s right to lose it.”

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

“The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.”

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

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

“I don’t know anything about baseball.”

“I like women.  I don’t understand them, but I like them.”

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

“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.”

“I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.”

“It’s a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.”

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

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

Sean Connery has appeared in the following films:
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
No Road Back (1957)
Hell Drivers (1957)
Time Lock (1957)
Action of the Tiger (1957)
Another Time, Another Place (1958)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959)
The Frightened City (1961)
On the Fiddle (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Woman of Straw (1964)
Marnie (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Hill (1965)
Thunderball (1965)
A Fine Madness (1966)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Shalako (1968)
Krasnaya palatka (1969)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The Offence (1972)
Zardoz (1974)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Ransom (1975)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Robin and Marian (1976)
The Next Man (1976)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
Meteor (1979)
Cuba (1979)
Outland (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Five Days One Summer (1982)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
Highlander (1986)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Presidio (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Family Business (1989)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Russia House (1990)
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Medicine Man (1992)
The Princess and the Cobbler (1993)
Rising Sun (1993)
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
Just Cause (1995)
First Knight (1995)
Dragonheart (1996)
The Rock (1996)
The Avengers (1998)
Playing by Heart (1998)
Entrapment (1999)
Finding Forrester (2000)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Sir Billi the Vet (2006)