"My start, my childhood, was less than auspicious. But when I was young, we didn’t know we lacked anything, because we had nothing to compare it to — and there's a freedom in that. I had a very hard working mother and father, I think of them both a great deal. 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. I left school at thirteen, I didn’t have a formal education, and I believe I would not be standing here tonight, without the books, the plays — the scripts. It's been a long journey from Fountainbridge to this evening — with you all. Though my feet are tired, my heart is not."
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Accepting the AFI Life Achievement Award (2006).
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 - 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor and film producer who became famous as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. He was a campaigner for Scottish independence.
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