Quotes from Sean Connery

I don't know anything about baseball.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I've never kept a record of anything.