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[[File:SeanConneryJune08.jpg|thumb|I got my break — big break — when I was five years old. And it's taken me more than seventy years to realize it. You see, at five, I [[learned]] to [[read]]. It's that [[simple]], and it's that [[profound]]]]
'''[[w:Sean Connery|Sir Thomas Sean Connery]]''' ([[25 August]] [[1930]] - [[31 October]] [[2020]]) was a Scottish actor and film producer who became famous as the first actor to portray [[James Bond]] in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. He was a campaigner for Scottish independence.

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== Quotes ==

* I suppose more than anything else I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]] or [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]]. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.
** Interview in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' (6 June 1964).

*When I spoke about Bond with [[Ian Fleming|Fleming]], he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly. But he also had a lot of idiosyncrasies that were considered snobbish — such as a taste for special wines, et cetera. But if you take Bond in the situations that he is constantly involved with, you see that it is a very hard, high, unusual league that he plays in. Therefore he is quite right in having all his senses satisfied — be it Warmth, wine, food or clothes — because the job, and he with it, may terminate at any minute. But the virtues that Amis mentions — loyalty, honesty — are there, too. 
** Interview in ''Playboy'' magazine (1965).

* An open-handed slap is justified &ndash; 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 I'd do it.
** Interview in ''Playboy'' magazine (1965).

* There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
** Interview with [[Barbara Walters]] (December 1987).

* 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 there's 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 it's taken me more than seventy years to realize it. You see, at five, I [[learned]] to [[read]]. It's that [[simple]], and it's 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. It's been a long journey from [[w:Fountainbridge|Fountainbridge]] to this evening — with you all. Though my feet are tired, my [[heart]] is not.
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z1BXALdwI Accepting the AFI Life Achievement Award] (2006).

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* [https://www.seanconnery.com/ Official website]
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* [http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13ae26e Sean Connery at the British Film Institute]

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