Pierce Brosnan Quotes
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I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
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Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
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Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
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I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
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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.
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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.
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The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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I like playing thieves.
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I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
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The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
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There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
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Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
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I'm not a politician or political animal.
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I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
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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.
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There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
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I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
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It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.
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If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
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I like Chekov a lot.