Top 100 Brosnan Quotes
#1. I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#2. The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.
Dev Patel
#3. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Christopher Lee
#4. I was never a huge 007 fan, but I sure liked Sean Connery. I'm sure Pierce Brosnan is good and has his moments, but I've not seen him; I've only seen bits and pieces on TV, so I can't really judge. Pierce looks very natural in the role.
Michael Keaton
#5. Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.
Stephanie Zimbalist
#6. It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.
Rick Yune
#7. I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
Olivia Williams
#8. A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
Steve Truglia
#9. People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.
Pierce Brosnan
#10. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. It can come from many places.
Pierce Brosnan
#11. I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?
Pierce Brosnan
#12. Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
Pierce Brosnan
#13. Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
Pierce Brosnan
#14. Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
Pierce Brosnan
#15. Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
Pierce Brosnan
#16. I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.
Pierce Brosnan
#17. I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
Pierce Brosnan
#18. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.
Pierce Brosnan
#19. Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.
Pierce Brosnan
#20. All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.
Jim Brosnan
#21. My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
Pierce Brosnan
#22. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#23. The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
Pierce Brosnan
#24. Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
Pierce Brosnan
#25. I lost track of it thereafter. I wish I had a piece of it. That would have been very, very nice. It was one of those little things they get you on the Bond and then suddenly your face is every which way.
Pierce Brosnan
#26. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#27. I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.
Pierce Brosnan
#29. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#30. Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
Pierce Brosnan
#33. The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.
Pierce Brosnan
#34. 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.'
Pierce Brosnan
#35. Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.
Pierce Brosnan
#36. I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
Pierce Brosnan
#37. I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
Pierce Brosnan
#38. I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this again," but there was nothing specific there. There's just the kind of vague sensation of how I'd like it to go. I allowed myself that gift to think that.
Pierce Brosnan
#39. I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
Pierce Brosnan
#40. Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.
Pierce Brosnan
#42. I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'
Pierce Brosnan
#43. Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.
Pierce Brosnan
#44. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#45. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#46. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#47. I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
Pierce Brosnan
#48. The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
Pierce Brosnan
#49. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#50. The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
Pierce Brosnan
#51. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#52. When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.
Jim Brosnan
#53. I love George Clooney; I think George is brilliant.
Pierce Brosnan
#55. I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
Pierce Brosnan
#56. There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
Pierce Brosnan
#57. I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.
Pierce Brosnan
#58. With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
Pierce Brosnan
#59. I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
Pierce Brosnan
#60. The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
Pierce Brosnan
#61. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#62. The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
Pierce Brosnan
#65. Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
Pierce Brosnan
#67. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#68. Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.
Pierce Brosnan
#69. I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
Pierce Brosnan
#70. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#71. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#73. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#74. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#75. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#76. If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
Pierce Brosnan
#77. My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
Pierce Brosnan
#78. I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
Pierce Brosnan
#79. 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.'
Pierce Brosnan
#80. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#81. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#83. Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"
Pierce Brosnan
#84. Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
Pierce Brosnan
#85. You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
Pierce Brosnan
#86. Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
Pierce Brosnan
#87. I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
Pierce Brosnan
#88. I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever. I was being judged in ways that left me nowhere to go. You have to be patient.
Pierce Brosnan
#89. Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
Pierce Brosnan
#90. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#91. I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
Pierce Brosnan
#92. I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional ... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
Pierce Brosnan
#93. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#94. I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
Pierce Brosnan
#95. My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
Pierce Brosnan
#96. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#97. Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating
Pierce Brosnan
#98. 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.
Pierce Brosnan
#99. There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.
Pierce Brosnan
#100. When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
Pierce Brosnan
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