The first and – for some – best Bond couldn't quite leave the role behind as his exit was followed up by two returns.
"That was part of the reason I wanted to be finished with Bond.
Also I had become completely identified with it, and it became very wearing and very boring," he noted.
However, Connery would put on the tuxedo again after a one-movie break for 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.
It was very much a one-and-done return, though, and Connery even said he would never play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever.
Poor Pierce Brosnan, the one Bond actor who, it seems, didn't get the choice of when to exit the role.
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