Happy 87th Birthday Sean Connery!!!!

The very best James Bond, ever.
Still, even after he reached stardom with the Bond series, Sean was anxious to broaden his scope.
One superb (and forgotten) British made-for-TV movie called MALE OF THE SPECIES.
In the first act, the 30-something year old Sean played the father of a teenage girl, and played it mighty well!
I remember the standing ovation he received when he accepted his Oscar.
He's retired from acting now, but in his day, he was one of the best!

"Now listen to me you benighted muckers! We are going to teach you soldiering, the world's noblest profession. When we're done with you you'll be able to stand up and slaughter your enemies like civilized men!..Good soldiers don't think! They just obey. Do you suppose if a man thought twice he would give his life for queen and country? Not bloody likely. He wouldn't go near the battlefield. One look at your foolish faces tells me you are going to be crack troops! Oh him there, that fellow with the five and a half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!"

Some pretty good Personal quotes from Birthday Boy Sean Connery :

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like [Alfred Hitchcock] or [Pablo Picasso].

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

I think the fact that one's hair disappeared early made it easier. I never had a "transition problem". I've always played older. I played Harrison Ford's father and Dustin Hoffman's father. And this year, I'm going to be 65. I'm hardly going to get into a weight program and do "Tarzan". I could have the best body sculpting in the world, but I'm never going to be James Bond again

A silent gesture can convey more in a flash than a minute of spoken dialogue. Unlike most actors, who resist directors cutting their lines, I have spent my whole career filleting mine. There are few directors who have not seen my cuts as improvements. Steven Spielberg paid me the ultimate compliment on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) by adopting nine out of ten of my ideas that traded dialogue for added visual interaction.

The Untouchables (1987):

(Connery plays Malone in this scene. Costner is Ness)

Malone: [talking privately in a church] You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do?
Ness: Anything within the law.
Malone: And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they're not gonna give up the fight, until one of you is dead.
Ness: I want to get Capone! I don't know how to do it.
Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Ness: I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal and I will do so.
Malone: Well, the Lord hates a coward.
[jabs Ness with his hand, and Ness shakes it]
Malone: Do you know what a blood oath is, Mr. Ness?
Ness: Yes.
Malone: Good, 'cause you just took one.

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