Q. I was wondering what else, besides soccer and your career, might interest a character like you—such as, I don’t know, politics for example.
Sean Connery: I’ve never voted since I was born. What’s the point? Things go on just the same, and politics is all a question of money: the more money you have, the more successful you are in politics. I’m not a monarchist, but I’m not a republican… I’m not a reactionary, and I’m not a socialist, either, although I see the world from an essentially economic point of view.It’s all a question of money, my dear, money! I feel sympathy for the workers of course; I was one of them. But I’ve never deluded myself that they’re Jesus Christs. God! I’ve lived too long among them not to know they’re not Jesus Christs. Ideologies leave me cold. I’ve never liked people who talk, I like people who get on with things and do them well and do them thoroughly, without speeches. I’m a practical man.
Do you see what I mean? I admire something done, accomplished and successfully finished, not something theorized and philosophized about. Nothing appeals to me more than strength, energy, enthusiasm. Between the conquered and conquerors, I choose the conquerors, always.
—Sean Connery, Look magazine, 1965
He’s right, though. The British have been a good source of cynicism. Being rich there is even more important than it is here.
The only thing he got even half right is an identification with ‘the conquerors’ no mention of course that those people come in a variety of sizes,. shapes, colors, and philosophies.
Smart, cynical, thoughtless and insensitive. Never liked him.