Quotes By Sean Connery

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

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

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.

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