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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I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.
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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.
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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.
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I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
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Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
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There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
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When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
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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.
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Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.
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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 was there for two years and working on that show is still one of the happiest times of my life,
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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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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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I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - 'but you're not young, you're 40.