Brosnan Quotes & Sayings

I always wanted to do a Western. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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

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. — Pierce Brosnan

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game. — Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond. — Pierce Brosnan

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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. — Pierce Brosnan

I like playing thieves. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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

The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it. — Pierce Brosnan

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses. — Pierce Brosnan

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit. — Pierce Brosnan

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. — Pierce Brosnan

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving. — Pierce Brosnan

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

The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful. — Pierce Brosnan

I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool. — Pierce Brosnan

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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

There's always been product placement in Bond movies. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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

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

Liam in Taken has been great to see. My boys love it. They love him. And there's just the gravitas to it. It's believable. You know the guy's endured. You know the guy's lived some life. Someone like Liam has lived a lot of life. Myself, I've lived a lot of life. There's loss. There's success. There's loss. There's doubts. And there's some heartbeat there. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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

Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents. — Pierce Brosnan

I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life. — Pierce Brosnan

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type. — Dev Patel

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. — Pierce Brosnan

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon. — Pierce Brosnan

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. — Pierce Brosnan

I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this again," but there was nothing specific there. There's just the kind of vague sensation of how I'd like it to go. I allowed myself that gift to think that. — Pierce Brosnan

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

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children. — Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones. — Stephanie Zimbalist

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part. — Pierce Brosnan

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

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike. — Steve Truglia

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme. — Rick Yune

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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

Certain projects find you at the right time. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

Come back you silly woman I need your credit cards. — Meredith Brosnan

Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. It can come from many places. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure. — Pierce Brosnan

Love cannot burn constantly. — Pierce Brosnan

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

There will be time enough some day to work less. — Pierce Brosnan

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

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.' — Pierce Brosnan

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

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. — Pierce Brosnan

No one can escape life's pain. That's life. — Pierce Brosnan

For me, acting is doing. — Pierce Brosnan

Drinking is not a spectator sport. — Jim Brosnan

My family is my sanctuary. — Pierce Brosnan

I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig. — Olivia Williams

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. — Pierce Brosnan

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game. — Jim Brosnan

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. — Pierce Brosnan

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

She's wacko. I should have known she was wacko from the beginning. She had a thing about spies. Was always watching those stupid Bond movies. I'd be banging her from behind, and she'd be watching James Bond on the television. Can you believe it?"

~(Written during Pierce Brosnan's 007 days so, yeah, I CAN believe it!) "Four To Score — Janet Evanovich

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan

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. — Pierce Brosnan