Quotes by Sean Connery, page 3

Sean Connery - scottish Actor

Also called: Sir Thomas Sean Connery.

Was born on 25 aug 1930.

Origin country: United Kingdom

The democratic principle of the country is rushing to recognise Croatia before they've even resolved any problems there. We should sort it out at home first.

SQuote by Sean Connery about principle, problems, home, country

The French have a Celtic link with the Scots and the Irish. The French, with their food and their language, are much more sophisticated, much more developed.

SQuote by Sean Connery about food, language

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

SQuote by Sean Connery about fire, fire brigade

The Labour Party's history was that they gave their independence to all the Empire and Commonwealth.

SQuote by Sean Connery about independence, history

The Tories come up here and threaten everybody's work, everybody's life force. They just say, We'll just move everything out if you don't come our way.

SQuote by Sean Connery about force, police, work, life, contentment

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

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There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

SQuote by Sean Connery about nothing, man

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

SQuote by Sean Connery about things

There's a spirit in Scotland which is rather sad because there's 20 million Scots in America, and possibly 25 to 30 percent of the Presidents of the United States are descended from Scots.

SQuote by Sean Connery about spirit

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

SQuote by Sean Connery about problems

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.

SQuote by Sean Connery about bad, people

These Scottish MPs in London sound English. Anybody who has a Scottish accent is made aware of it instead of it being perfectly acceptable.

SQuote by Sean Connery about being

They say there's a million guns out there that they cannot account for. And Scotland has the worst drug situation in Europe. Everybody knows where it is and they're powerless to do anything.

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This chap was trying to go on about the next phase in school and he had a very pronounced Scottish accent. There's a big failing when these kids in school get a complex because they talk like that.

SQuote by Sean Connery about school

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

SQuote by Sean Connery about contentment

We don't have the bridge between America and Scotland that Ireland has with America, and that's a real drawback.

SQuote by Sean Connery about real estate

We have to go back to the source of the oil. There was no question, there was an abundance. In a normal evolutionary sense, the oil question has to be addressed.

SQuote by Sean Connery about question, common sense, sense

We see what's happened in Russia where, after 70 years of Communism, the kind of chaos that's going on there.

SQuote by Sean Connery about communism, chaos

We've always been an island, and isolated. A lot of the attitude in Scotland is, they're not made to feel entitled

SQuote by Sean Connery about attitude

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

SQuote by Sean Connery about contentment