Top 100 Connery Quotes
#1. I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
Nick Harkaway
#2. There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
F. Murray Abraham
#3. It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
Judd Nelson
#5. Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.
Bruce Feirstein
#6. And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard
just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.
Tamora Pierce
#7. I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
Ian Fleming
#8. Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures.
Richard Corliss
#9. Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity.
Richard Corliss
#10. My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
Michael Caine
#11. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.
Denzel Washington
#12. James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#13. Not now. She'd fought back, hard. Only to have her lawsuit thrown out by the first judge, her lawyers quit on her, and defeat wash over her like a bitter shower of acid. You can't sue a religion. You can't accuse a saint. Stella Connery was of sound mind when she made her will,
Anne Stuart
#14. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?
Martin Campbell
#16. I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.
Nicola Sturgeon
#17. I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery. Tongue-tied, I couldn't think of a thing to say besides, "You're Sean Connery," of which presumably he was aware.
Lionel Shriver
#18. I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.
Maria Menounos
#19. I could take Sean Connery in a fight ... I could definitely take him.
Harrison Ford
#20. He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
Shane West
#21. Sean Connery, in Vyshny Volochyok
in the rain on a drizzly solo trek,
said, "forgetting my sweater
has made me much wetter.
I certainly do miss my polo-neck."
- Arthur Shappey, Limerick, Cabin Pressure
John David Finnemore
#22. I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool.
Henry Cavill
#23. I was never a huge 007 fan, but I sure liked Sean Connery. I'm sure Pierce Brosnan is good and has his moments, but I've not seen him; I've only seen bits and pieces on TV, so I can't really judge. Pierce looks very natural in the role.
Michael Keaton
#24. I've always wanted to work with Sean Connery - there's something about his style, and his calm, cool demeanor that I find intriguing.
Kelsey Chow
#25. When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#26. Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba
#27. She remembers an eerily young Sean Connery, in that first James Bond film, using fine clear Scottish spit to paste one of his gorgeous black hairs across the gap between the jamb and the door of his hotel room.
William Gibson
#28. The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.
Sidney Lumet
#29. the pace at which Sean Connery speaks stems from a decision he's made. And every single vowel delivered is with respect for the language. But he delivers it so naturally and with so much humanity that you don't realize that, technically, he is giving a master class in how to deliver a line.
Ron Perlman
#30. A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
Charles Dance
#31. With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
F. Murray Abraham
#32. There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
F. Murray Abraham
#33. I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.
Tony D'Souza
#35. Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.
Sean Connery
#36. 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.
Sean Connery
#37. 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.
Sean Connery
#38. 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.
Sean Connery
#39. 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.
Sean Connery
#40. I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
Sean Connery
#41. Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Sean Connery
#42. 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.
Sean Connery
#43. Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
Sean Connery
#45. May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
Sean Connery
#46. I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.
Sean Connery
#47. If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Sean Connery
#48. 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.
Sean Connery
#49. Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.
Sean Connery
#50. There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!
Sean Connery
#51. 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.
Sean Connery
#52. The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
Sean Connery
#53. The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.
Sean Connery
#55. My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.
Sean Connery
#56. I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.
Sean Connery
#57. A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?
Sean Connery
#58. I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.
Sean Connery
#59. 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.
Sean Connery
#60. There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
Sean Connery
#61. 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.
Sean Connery
#62. 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.
Sean Connery
#63. When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
Sean Connery
#65. Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
Sean Connery
#66. Personally I give us ... one chance of three.
Sean Connery
#67. 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.
Sean Connery
#68. [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.
Sean Connery
#69. I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.
Sean Connery
#70. 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.
Sean Connery
#71. Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.
Sean Connery
#72. I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.
Sean Connery
#73. The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.
Sean Connery
#74. I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.
Sean Connery
#75. To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
Sean Connery
#76. 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.
Sean Connery
#77. Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.
Sean Connery
#78. If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.
Sean Connery
#79. Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.
Sean Connery
#80. If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.
Sean Connery
#81. It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.
Sean Connery
#82. I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
Sean Connery
#83. There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
Sean Connery
#84. It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.
Sean Connery
#85. I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
Sean Connery
#86. It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.
Sean Connery
#87. I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.
Sean Connery
#88. 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!
Sean Connery
#89. I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.
Sean Connery
#90. 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.
Sean Connery
#91. If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.
Sean Connery
#92. Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.
Sean Connery
#94. 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.
Sean Connery
#95. Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
Sean Connery
#96. You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
Sean Connery
#97. Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.
Sean Connery
#98. The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.
Sean Connery
#99. I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.
Sean Connery
#100. There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.
Sean Connery
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