Pierce Brosnan Quotes
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I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
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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.
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Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.
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I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
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Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
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The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
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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.'
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Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
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It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
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I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
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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.
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I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
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No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
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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!'
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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.
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I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.
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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.
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Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
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Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
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I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
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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.
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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.