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

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

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

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

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

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

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

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

I don’t know anything about baseball.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.

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.

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

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.

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

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

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I’d rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 have no shortage of material or offers, it’s just a case of what you select to do. But I think it’s realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.