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 U.S. Open Golf Tournament.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 democrati...”