Pierce Brosnan quotes:

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

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.

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.

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

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.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

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!'

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

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.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

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.'

There's always been product placement in Bond movies.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

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.

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.

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.'

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

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

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

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

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.

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

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

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.

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.

I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

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.

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

There will be time enough some day to work less.

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.

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

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

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.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

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

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

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.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

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

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.

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

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

My wife loves Roger Moore.

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

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.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

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.

Love is hard.

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.

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.

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

There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.

And consequently, you have this rich looking film, which gives it this kind of muscular feel, deep focus, soft focus look. I'm not that great on development. I can see where things go wrong, but Beau, Carl and Mike Finch, they worked on it relentlessly. And then I would see the material and I would say, "Well, that just doesn't ring true. I don't quite know why that's happening."

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

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.

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

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.

The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it.

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

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

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.

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

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.

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.

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

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.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

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.

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

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.

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

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

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

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

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

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

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.

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

I'm a journeyman actor.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

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

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.

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

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

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.

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

I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I love the finer things.