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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't know anything about baseball.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like women I dont understand them but I like them.

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

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.