Pierce Brosnan
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.
I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.
Love cannot burn constantly.
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.
I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.
I like playing thieves.
Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.
I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
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.
I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.
When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
My wife loves Roger Moore.
Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.
I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.
I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'
There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.
Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
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.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.
Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.
Love is hard.
I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.