connerys:“If you had asked any casting director who would be the sort of man to cast as Bond,
connerys:“If you had asked any casting director who would be the sort of man to cast as Bond, an Etonbred Englishman, the last person into the box would have been me, a working-class Scotsman. And I didn’t particularly have the face for it; at 16 I looked 30, although I was never really aware of age until I was in my 20s. When I was acting with Lana Turner I realized suddenly I was 28 – and I’m even more aware of time and age now than I was then. But today my face is accepted as Bond, and that’s how it should be.” -- source link