Sean Connery Speaks

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

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 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 did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again.
Sean Connery

I don't know anything about baseball.
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

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

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

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

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

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

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
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 never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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