Words matter. These are the best Pierce Brosnan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
I have said to my agents, ‘I want to work. I want to play character roles.’
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.
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They’re still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I’d fall off the tree.
The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
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.
The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that’s for sure.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you’re perceived. You can lose your way.
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 try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes.
My family is my sanctuary.
I like playing thieves.
The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it’s a different Bond. It’s the cross pollination of ‘The Bourne Identity’ and ‘James Bond;’ that kind of style of filmmaking.
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
There are a lot of funny things that happen in one’s life.
Love cannot burn constantly.
If you want to do a female version of ‘The Expendables,’ I’ll be in that one.
Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.
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.
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
Some people think my singing is superb. But they’re mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.
Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
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.
With such riches as I have in life, you’re always nervous. Being Irish, you’re waiting for something to knock it sideways.
The scripts don’t come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
For me, acting is doing.
I always keep thinking, ‘The next role – that’s going to be the one that’s really going to define me and show them all. I’ll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.’
Fame is like a big piece of meringue – it’s beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn’t really fill you up.
Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.
Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there’s not enough choice.
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.
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.
As I’ve gotten older and I’ve watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It’s just an itch; it’s a nagging itch to go back there.
I’ve been accused of my publicist of being too confessional… it’s probably my Celtic upbringing.
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
Susanne Bier’s work I’ve always really enjoyed. She’s just such a great filmmaker; she’s very cool and very sexy – that always helps, too.
Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
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.
That’s it. I’ve said all I’ve got to say on the world of James Bond.
You’re always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
There’s always been product placement in Bond movies.
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.
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.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It’s one of the deepest pains of being human.
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.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they’re pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
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 paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.
I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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.
I’d been brought up on… American TV: ‘Lou Grant,’ ‘Starsky & Hutch;’ ‘Gilligan’s Island.’
I’m an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, ‘Yeah, I love this story and now let’s bring the people, the ensemble together,’ and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
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 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.
The word ‘star’ doesn’t mean an awful lot to me. ‘Good actor’ and having the respect of one’s peers means more.
There’s a wonderful stable of directors I’ve worked with, and work I’ve done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
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.
To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see ‘Rosemary’s Baby’… it scared the crap out of me.
God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.
I’d my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
I’m one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
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.
Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.
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.
I’m not a politician or political animal.
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.
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