Quotes from Sean Connery

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.

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

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

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

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

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.

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.

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.

My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.

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

Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

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 find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public institution.

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social. Otherwise you'll end up being devoured.

A book fell on my head. I can only blame my shelf.

If you start thinking of your image, or what the mysterious 'they' out there are thinking of you, you're in a trap. What's important is that you're doing the work that's best for you.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

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.

I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

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

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.

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