Best 68 quotes of Sean Connery on MyQuotes

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

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.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

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.

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

I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

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 did many other things before I ever got into the movies. I've been in so many businesses, it's a joke. All of them totally unsuited to me. Selling used cars. Running a club in London.

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

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

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

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

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

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

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.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

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

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

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

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

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'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'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.

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

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've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

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

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

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

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

Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

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

People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.