Pierce Brosnan
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.Collection: Dreams
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.Collection: Women
God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Famous
There's always been product placement in Bond movies.Collection: Movies
I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.Collection: Romantic
The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.Collection: Movies
There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.Collection: Funny
My family is my sanctuary.Collection: Family
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.Collection: Movies
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.Collection: Environmental
I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.Collection: Humor
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.Collection: Faith
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.Collection: Food
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.Collection: Knowledge
I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.Collection: Inspirational
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!'Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Romantic
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
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.
I always wanted to do a Western.
I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.
I like Chekov a lot.
As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
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.
I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'
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.'
There will be time enough some day to work less.
To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.
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.
I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
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.