Top 210 Quotes & Sayings by Pierce Brosnan - Page 3

I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

My wife loves Roger Moore.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

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.

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

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.

I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.

Love is hard.

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.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

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.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

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.

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.

Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.

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.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

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.

Love cannot burn constantly.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.

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.

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.

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.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

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.

Everybody gave 100%. I mean everyone, because they all knew that the film had the bones and the heartbeat of something that could be good. And everyone was in on it and wanted it for me and wanted it for Roger and Beau.

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.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

Education isn't a result. It's a process.

I believe you can only draw from your own life as an actor. All the characters I've played, I only have my infinite eye and the presence of my life to take from.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

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.

Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

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.

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.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

Liam in Taken has been great to see. My boys love it. They love him. And there's just the gravitas to it. It's believable. You know the guy's endured. You know the guy's lived some life. Someone like Liam has lived a lot of life. Myself, I've lived a lot of life. There's loss. There's success. There's loss. There's doubts. And there's some heartbeat there.

Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. It can come from many places.

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love.

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.

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.