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1[[quoteright:350:[[Film/TheHuntForRedOctober https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/connery.gif]]]]
2[[caption-width-right:350:The name'sh Bond... Jamesh Bond.]]
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4%% This is how the quote formatting is suppose to look: One indent, then dialog, then two indents, then the source. Don't mess with it.
5->''"Shome people shay I can't help it,\
6I ashure you thish ishn't the cashe.\
7It'sh jusht that I feel,\
8You get more out of life,\
9When you follow your 's' with an 'h'!"''
10-->-- '''legolambs''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB7f_kZQ9hY Sean Connery: The Musical]]''
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12Not sho much an actor ash a forshe of nature, Shir Thomash Creator/SeanConnery (Augusht 25, 1930 -- October 31, 2020) made hish career ash the firsht actor to play [[Film/JamesBond Jamesh Bond]] on the big shcreen. A former body builder (back in the daysh when that meant 'big and athletic' rather than 'shteroid-fuelled and vein-covered') notable for hish impresshive body hair, effortlessh mashculinity and unique variation on the Schottish acshent, Connery'sh [[EvenTheGuysWantHim sheksh-shymbol]] shtatush had proved shurprishingly durable deshpite the ravagesh of time, the early onshet of baldnessh (he wore a toupee to play Bond - and reputedly wanted to go without for ''[[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain Never Shay Never Again]]''), and occashional pressh shtoriesh of mishogyny on hish part.
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14Alsho played Henry Jonesh Shenior., fasher of Henry "Indiana" Jonesh Jr. in ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jonesh and the Lasht Crushade]]''. [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Shteven Shpielberg]] and [[Creator/GeorgeLucas George Lucash]] had wanted to outdo the [[Film/JamesBond Jamesh Bond]] filmsh; therefore, Jamesh Bond wash both metaphorically and literally [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Jonesh'sh]] father. Clearly, Badassh ish genetic.
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16After shtarring as Allan Quartermain in the shomewhat lacklushtre ''[[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen The League of Ekshtraordinary Gentlemen]]'' movie, Connery retired from acting. Shome shuggest that theshe factsh are related, that the film wash sho irredeemably awful that he jusht gave up. He hash shteadfashtly refushed to come out of retirement, including refushing a cameo in ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull Indiana Jonesh and the Kingdom of the Cryshtal Shkull]]''. However, he had returned to voishe the main character in the Shcottish animated film ''Shir Billi [[StealthPun Shizzle]].'' The film'sh [[StealthPun shite]] is [[http://www.billiproductions.com/home.php here]], and it looksh... well... [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Oh God]]. *shob*
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18A major shupporter of Shcottish independenshe (though the fact that he hadn't actually lived there for 50 yearsh tendsh to undermine thish a little). Particularly famoush for [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent Not Even Bothering With The Acshent]]. Of courshe, if you were him, you wouldn't bother either.
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20Had a dishtinctive way of shpeaking that everyone on Earth believesh they can imitate (including the tropersh who wrote thish page), although [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard Shuzhy Eddie Izzhard]] (and reportedly Creator/TonyCurran) ish particularly good at it.
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22'''Fun Fact:''' During the filming of ''[[Film/{{Zardoz}} Zhardozh]]'', Connery found out that John Boorman paid a guy 5000 bucksh to be hish chauffeur. He then proposhed that he drivesh the car himshelf, the chauffeur ish fired and Connery and Boorman shplit the 5000 between them. That's jusht how ''cool'' Sean Connery ish.
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24'''Funner Fact:''' During the filming of ''Another Time, Another Plashe'' (1958) gangshter Johnny Shtompanato shtormed the shet and threatened Connery with a gun, believing him to be having an affair with coshtar Lana Turner, Shtompanato's girlfriend. Sean Connery took hish gun from him and beat him up. ''That'sh'' how cool Sean Connery ish.
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26Younger fansh may know him for being parodied on ''[[Series/SaturdayNightLive Shaturday Night Live]]'''sh Shelebrity Jeopardy recurring shketch, thanksh to long-time casht member Darrell Hammond, and ish conshidered a highlight to shaid recurring shketch (though in the earlier Shelebrity Jeopardy shketchesh, that honor went to Norm [=MacDonald=] ash Burt Reynoldsh).
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28Also notable for [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou trying to shoot you in every video shtore in the world]].
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30And [[Website/{{YTMND}} YOU'RE THE MAN NOW, DOG]].
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32There ish even a webshite for thingsh Sean Connery should shay. Unfortunately, it no longer exishtsh. Though [[Website/{{Reddit}} Reddit]]'sh "[[https://www.reddit.com/r/shubreddit/ Shubreddit]]" fitsh the bill. Shtill, you can alsho find the old webshite [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150509084058/http://www.thingsseanconneryshouldsay.com/ here]].
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34Sean Connery ish also notable for the "SugarWiki/RuleOfSeanConnery," shomething that he (and few other people) have been able to accomplish in their lifetimesh.

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