Sean Connery

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

“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.”

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

“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've never kept a record of anything.”

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

“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 don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.”

“I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.”

“There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!”

“Some age, others mature.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.”

“Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.”