Sean Connery
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Conneryis a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awardsand three Golden Globes. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving a Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 August 1930
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
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Im incredibly lucky to still be around, doing all the things I want to do and getting extremely well paid for it. Theres a parallel with golfa lot of it is in the mind, and the moment you start to lose the enthusiasm or appetite, it affects your judgments and decisions. And then you stop performing well. I think enthusiasm and appetite are more important than anything.
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My own guide is always what I find interesting. If it's something that makes me think: 'I'd like to see this' then that's the yardstick I apply. Obviously that doesn't satisfy everybody.
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His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962.
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I was there for two years and working on that show is still one of the happiest times of my life,
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I have a great respect for money. I know how hard it is to earn and keep, especially with our diabolical taxes in Britain. I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week.
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What we really need is to get back some of the optimism we had five years ago (in the Middle East peace process) and I'm sure there's going to be a change in the climate within a week.
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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.
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Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
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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.
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Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.
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There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!
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Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.
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When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.
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It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.