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I suppose more than anything else I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.

— Sean Connery

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An open-handed slap is justified – if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I'd do it.

Interview in Playboy magazine (1965)

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

I got my break — big break — when I was five years old. And it's taken me more than seventy years to realize it. You see, at five, I learned to read. It's that simple, and it's that profound.

Accepting the AFI Life Achievement Award (2006)

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