Pierce Brosnan Quotes
Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.
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When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
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It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.
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Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!
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I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.
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I did drop out of school.
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It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
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Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
