Wit & Attitude Quote by Sean Connery

Connery’s blunt “I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him” lands like a barroom joke with a bruised knuckle behind it. The profanity does two jobs at once: it punctures the tuxedo sheen of the franchise, and it signals a personal weariness that’s bigger than mere typecasting. He isn’t attacking a character so much as the cultural machine that turned a working actor into a fixed logo.

The intent is partly comic deflation. Bond is supposed to be untouchable, a fantasy of unruffled masculinity; Connery’s line drags him back into the realm of irritation, contracts, and public expectations. But the subtext is sharper: fame can be a kind of annexation. When a role becomes your public face, it starts crowding out your private self and your artistic range, and the audience keeps asking you to replay the same swagger on demand. “Kill him” reads less like literal violence and more like a desire for narrative finality - to close the book so he can be read as something else.

Context matters because Connery’s Bond helped define the template: charming, lethal, casually entitled. As later decades re-litigated that archetype, Connery’s ambivalence also feels like a retroactive critique of the persona he helped mint. The line works because it’s both grievance and liberation fantasy: the star admitting that the character’s immortality is precisely the problem. Bond never ages, never changes; the actor did, and wanted permission to move on.