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

— Sean Connery

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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.

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)

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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