“Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.”
“Some age, others mature.”
“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’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.”
“Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.”
“I don’t think I’ll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.”
“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.”
“There are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”
“I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.”
“If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.”
“There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.”
“Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.”
“There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.”
“I’ve never kept a record of anything.”
“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.”
“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 have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.”
“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.”
“More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.”
“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 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.”
“If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.”
“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 am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.”
“I’m an easy target because of my political opinions.”
“There’s one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!”
“I don’t know anything about baseball.”
“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 left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.”
“I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.”
“I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.”
“It’s a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.”
“Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.”
“There’s a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.”
“To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.”
“When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.”
“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it’s not something I’ve ever used and I don’t think I ever will.”
“It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn’t refuse to do another movie.”
“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.”
“Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn’t true.”
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