Sean Connery The Longest Day 1962-2015

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Sean Connery The Longest Day 1962-2015

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David Lee Guss

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"I never disliked Bond, as some have thought. Creating a character like that does take a certain craft. It's simply natural to seek other roles.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like [Alfred Hitchcock] or [Pablo Picasso].

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

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 James Bond] It's with me 'til I go in the box.

I'm fed up with the idiots, the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and those who green-light them. I don't say they're all idiots - I'm just saying there's a lot of them. It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

[on why he resigned the role of James Bond while filming You Only Live Twice

(1967)] One of the reasons I stopped doing it was because I got really fed up with the space stuff and special effects. I just found it getting more and more influential in the movies.

[during his speech after receiving the AFI Life Achievement award] Though my feet are tired, my heart is not.

I had no grand plan. Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.

[on being one of the biggest movie stars in the world] Well, that's only because
of your price. And my current price? Well, ha, that's nobody's business but mine.

[on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)] I am resting from acting - you might say I'm retired. It would take something really considerable to bring me back. Nothing has been discussed but I hear it's back on.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. I understand if you get caught in a fight, but to take it out on a room that implies some psychiatric disorder. The way I was brought up made me think about the person who has to clean up afterwards.

I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. At times I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again.

Dealing with this financial stuff was too much for me. It was back to education and I had to learn to understand it all myself.

I am happy to say that I sued Allied Artists for cosmetic bookkeeping and they're bankrupt.

It reads as though one had made great dramatic decisions, but in fact one didn't. I certainly had the drive from the beginning, but the targets and ambitions were much, much less.

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.

Anyone contemplating a film career could do no better than read Alexander Mackendrick's book 'On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director.'

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I realized that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves.

It's funny, but the film buffs at UCLA are constantly dissecting Marnie (1964) these days to see how it was done. When it was first released, there was a lot of criticism of Alfred Hitchcock because he used a studio set for the dockside scene. But the backdrop looked just like the port of Bristol - if not Baltimore, where it's supposed to be at. I adored and enjoyed Hitchcock tremendously. He never lost his patience or composure on the set.

[on his Marnie (1964) leading lady Tippi Hedren] "She's underrated in a business where most actors are overrated.

Robin and Marian (1976) was supposed to be called "The Death of Robin Hood", but Americans don't like heroes who die or anything that might not smack of being a victory.

I enjoy the excitement of working on a well-crewed and exciting picture. It's like a microcosm of society that really works. Because nothing works anywhere else." - Sean Connery, 1931

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