I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
— Pierce Brosnan
If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
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 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 enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
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.
I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.
I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.
I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
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.
The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
Love cannot burn constantly.
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
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.
There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.
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.
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
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.
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 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.
I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.
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.
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.
I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
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 like playing thieves.
I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
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.
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
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 Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
My wife loves Roger Moore.
Love is hard.
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.
Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.
I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'
Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
