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

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.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

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.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Scotland is the Canada of England!

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

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.