Pierce Brosnan Quotes
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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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I like playing thieves.
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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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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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I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
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Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
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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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Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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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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I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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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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The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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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 think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
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If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
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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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I'm not a politician or political animal.
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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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I like Chekov a lot.
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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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A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.
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I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.