Explore Quotes by Pierce Brosnan

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.

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

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.

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

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 was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.

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

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

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 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.

I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.

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

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.'

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

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

I like Chekov a lot.

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

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

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!'