Top 100 Pierce Brosnan Quotes
#1. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. It can come from many places.
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#2. Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
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#3. Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
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#4. Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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#5. 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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#6. Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.
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#7. My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
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#8. 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.
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#9. The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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#10. Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
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#11. When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.
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#14. The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.
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#15. In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'
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#16. I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
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#17. I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
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#19. I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'
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#20. Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.
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#21. 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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#22. I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
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#23. The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
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#24. 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.
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#25. The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
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#26. 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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#27. I love George Clooney; I think George is brilliant.
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#28. With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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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#35. If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
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#36. My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
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#37. I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
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#38. 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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#39. 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.
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#40. Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"
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#41. 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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#42. You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
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#43. Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
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#44. I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
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#45. Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
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#46. 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.
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#47. Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating
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#48. When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.
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#49. There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.
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#50. When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
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#53. It will be very hard to get out of Bond. It will be the pictures I do between Bonds that will color my career, that will give my career longevity after this franchise is over ... I will be stamped with this character for life.
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#54. When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
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#55. 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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#56. I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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#58. 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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#59. I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.
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#60. 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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#61. Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
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#62. I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.
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#63. The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.
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#64. There's always been product placement in Bond movies.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.
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#69. It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.
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#70. I'll make phone calls. I'll call anybody and knock on any door to try and get a location, or get an actor, or get an actress. But no, it was just very easy. We just hit the ground running.
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#71. I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.
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#72. 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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#73. Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
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#74. James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
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#75. I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
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#76. You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
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#77. The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
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#78. To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
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#79. Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.
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#83. You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
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#84. 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.'
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#85. 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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#86. 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.
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#87. I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.
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#88. Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.
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#89. You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
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#90. I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
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#91. 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.
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#92. The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
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#96. 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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#98. The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
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#99. 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.
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#100. I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.
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