Pierce Brosnan Quotes

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

I love the finer things.

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

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.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I'll make phone calls. I'll call anybody and knock on any door to try and get a location, or get an actor, or get an actress. But no, it was just very easy. We just hit the ground running.

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.

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.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

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.

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.

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 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.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.

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.

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.

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 lost track of it thereafter. I wish I had a piece of it. That would have been very, very nice. It was one of those little things they get you on the Bond and then suddenly your face is every which way.

I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'

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.

We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

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.

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.'

I'm not a politician or political animal.

The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

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.

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.

There's always been product placement in Bond movies.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

Everybody gave 100%. I mean everyone, because they all knew that the film had the bones and the heartbeat of something that could be good. And everyone was in on it and wanted it for me and wanted it for Roger and Beau.

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.

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.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

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.

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 think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.

I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional ... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.

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.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

I like Chekov a lot.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

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 found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.

It will be very hard to get out of Bond. It will be the pictures I do between Bonds that will color my career, that will give my career longevity after this franchise is over ... I will be stamped with this character for life.

I'm not very comfortable with watching my performances. I don't particularly find a great joy in it. Everything is the process of making it, of getting it, getting the job, saying yes to the job. Those are the joys. Making it is the greatest joy. And then, you have to show the bloody thing. You have to show and tell, be judged. But I don't listen. I don't pay much attention. I hear the rumblings of greatness or the arrows of discontent and harsh words. Then you go, "Oh God. Why?"

I love George Clooney; I think George is brilliant.

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 paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

So that would be my input and I'd go off and I'd work on another film, and then I'd catch up with them later on in the year. We just kind of nursed the piece along. There was no timeframe. We didn't have anyone pushing us except ourselves to make the film, and a desire. And then the organic kind of naming of Roger; then it happened really fast.

I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?

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.

There will be time enough some day to work less.

I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

I always wanted to do a Western.

I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

I like playing thieves.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

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.

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.

I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.