Pierce Brosnan Quotes
Actor
Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.
I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
My family is my sanctuary.
I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'
Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.
The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.
There's always been product placement in Bond movies.
If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It would be a comedy.
There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.
Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.
No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.
I love George Clooney; I think George is brilliant.
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
Certain projects find you at the right time.
It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.
For me, acting is doing.
Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
I'm not a politician or political animal.
Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.
Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.
When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.
I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.
This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
I'm a journeyman actor.
I have no desire to look at myself.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.
James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.
Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.
I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.
Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.
I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.
The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.
I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.
I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.
People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.
I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever. I was being judged in ways that left me nowhere to go. You have to be patient.
You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.
Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
I always wanted to do a Western.
I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.
I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.