Sean Connery

"I suppose more than anything else Id like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest."

"An open-handed slap is justified – if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then Id do it."

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

"My start, my childhood, was less than auspicious. But when I was young, we didn’t know we lacked anything, because we had nothing to compare it to — and theres a freedom in that. I had a very hard working mother and father, I think of them both a great deal. I got my break — big break — when I was five years old. And its taken me more than seventy years to realize it. You see, at five, I learned to read. Its that simple, and its that profound. I left school at thirteen, I didn’t have a formal education, and I believe I would not be standing here tonight, without the books, the plays — the scripts. Its been a long journey from Fountainbridge to this evening — with you all. Though my feet are tired, my heart is not."