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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I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven't done it since.
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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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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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To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
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This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.
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Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
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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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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 know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.
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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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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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I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
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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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Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
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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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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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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.
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I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
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I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
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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.
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No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
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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.
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I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.