Pierce Brosnan Quotes (27 Quotes)


    brought the tone, and he brought it hard and fast. He picked up and carried Sunset, which was really a small film, and made this popcorn piece. It was kind of wobbly for a while. God, there were times I was cursing him out, cursing the writers out. I don't like it when it gets shaky like that.

    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.

    At first he was bisexual, he shagged everything - man, woman, beast - but I thought 'Less is more.' It's a razor's edge. The trick is to bring the audience in then push them away, but you don't want to leave them in the cold. So he is still wild. The curtain goes up, he gets out of bed and paints his toenails.

    I think Daniel is a very fine actor. These are rocky waters and they are going to get him one way or another, but I think he will have the last laugh at the end of it.

    I am a sick, pathetic, immoral, alcoholic, sexually perverse, lost man, who is having a crisis of confidence in Mexico City.


    For me as the actor that was about to step onto the stage, carrying the baggage that I do of Remington Steele or Thomas Crown or Bond, I think this was a wonderful way of deconstructing all of that, playing with it and turning it on its ear.

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


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

    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.


    It would have been sweet to go back for a fifth installment. I was just getting the hang of it, you know ... It would have been wonderful to go out there for one last game and pass the baton.

    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.

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

    His departure from the role was a titanic jolt to the system, ... a great sense of calm.

    I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education. As an actor, I've got by, I've had employment, I've had the good fortune to be able to work and I just feel blessed. But I do feel I have some bit of talent to create a character or move people, or entertain an audience, and that is very gratifying.

    From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, ''You would have made a great James Bond Weren't you going to be James Bond You should have been, you could have been, you may have been.'' Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.


    He has an intensity, and a great voice. He's very fearless, and he's got a good body of work in the cinema already. They wanted to make a shift, play with more character.

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

    I'm about to do scene 58 with the lovely Salma Hayek where we roll around on the beach naked and talk about some silly diamond, ... And the boys are telling me that the negotiations have stopped. When the message was delivered, it was a body blow. I said, 'What does that mean' They said, 'We don't know. But they'll call you next Friday. Five-thirty.'

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

    I thought. ... I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation.

    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.

    The only thing I see here with the celebrities is that they do go overseas, like Pierce Brosnan - who's not even an American citizen, he's an Irishman, unfortunately - and they present a perception of America that's flat-out not true. For that they should be chastised.

    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.

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


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