Sean Connery Net Worth

Sean Connery's Quotes

• I was called Sean long before I was an actor, I had an Irish buddy when I was 12 named Seamus -- pronounced Shay-mus. So they nicknamed us Seamus and Shawn and it stuck.
• I never disliked Bond, as some have thought. Creating a character like that does take a certain craft. It's simply natural to seek other roles.
• More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Alfred Hitchcock or Pablo Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.
• I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - "but you're not young, you're 40".
• Some age, others mature.

Interesting Facts about Sean Connery

1. He was offered the role of Robert Elliott by Brian De Palma in Dressed to Kill (1980) and was enthusiastic about it, but declined on account of previously acquired commitments.
2. In October 1997, he was ranked #14 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
3. In 1953, he entered the Mr. Universe contest, finishing third in the tall man's division.
4. He was voted People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989.
5. Father of Jason Connery.
6. He wore a toupee in his Bond movies from Goldfinger (1964) on, as he started losing his hair at 17 and before that, various techniques were used to make the most of the hair he still did have for other roles.
7. He has two small tattoos on his right arm. One says "Scotland forever", the other "Mum and Dad." He got them when he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 16.
8. He took dancing lessons for 11 years. His teacher was the Swedish dancer Yat Malmgren.
9. He had radiation therapy for an undisclosed throat ailment in 1993. In a February 1995 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Connery said the treatment had been to remove benign tumors from his vocal chords after he found himself losing his voice while filming Rising Sun (1993).
10. He donated his salary from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) to charity.
11. He formerly worked as a coffin polisher.
12. He is the older brother of Neil Connery.
13. He formerly worked as a milk delivery man.
14. He is a major contributor to the Scottish National Party (SNP). This was stopped for a while when the ruling Labour government said people living outside of the United Kingdom would not be allowed to donate money to British political parties.
15. In 1999, he was voted 'Sexiest Man of the Century' by People Magazine.
16. He said in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983), he was taking martial arts lessons and in the process angered the instructor who in turn broke his wrist. Connery stayed with the wrist broken for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain... the instructor was Steven Seagal.
17. He is the recipient of 22nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contribution to arts and culture, presented by President Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. on December 5, 1999.
18. He used to live in Marbella, Spain, near a golf course where he played daily when not filming. He left following disagreements with the local press, and now resides in the Bahamas where he plays golf much less frequently.
19. He has his own film production company (Fountainbridge Films). Fountainbridge is an area of Edinburgh where he was born.
20. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for his services to Film Drama. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in an hour-long investiture ceremony at Edinburgh's Holyrood Palace in Scotland on July 5, 2000 accompanied by his wife, Micheline, and brother, Neil, were by his side.