Sir Sean Connery Biography

"Some age, others mature."

On turning down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings:
"I had never read Tolkien, and I didn't understand the script when they sent it to me. Bobbits? Hobbits? 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. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding."

On whether he would ever escape being identified as 007:
"It's with me till I go in the box."

"One of the things that strikes me is that no matter how difficult or underprivileged the situation you were living in as a child, it wasn't considered difficult. I don't think as children, you are aware of it. You have nothing to compare it to."

Speaking about the impending invasion of Iraq in March 2003:
"I don't know who could be in favour of it, but it can't be stopped. It is inevitable."