Pierce Brosnan Quotes

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 this crap movie.

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

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.

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

I don't see myself as the 'Hunk of the Month'.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

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.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

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.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

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

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.

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.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

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

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

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

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.

For me, acting is doing.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

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.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

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

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.

You need to love everyone.

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!'

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

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.

America gave me the great glory of coming into people's homes every week and allowed me to last as long as I have.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

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.

I live a very simple existence when I'm not on the road. Because when I'm on the road making a movie, I'm away from home.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

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?

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 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.

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

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.

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.

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.

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

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 thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.