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I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.

I'm fed up with the idiots ... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

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

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

Be careful what you shoot at ... most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

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.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Some age, others mature.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

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

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

Personally I give us ... one chance of three.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

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

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

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

I've never kept a record of anything.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

I don't think I'll ever act again.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

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

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I don't know anything about baseball.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.