I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
— Pierce Brosnan
You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
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 hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.
I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
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.
I love the finer things.
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.'
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.
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 very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.
I always wanted to do a Western.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It would be a comedy.
Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
There will be time enough some day to work less.
I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
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.
Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
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.
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
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.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.
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.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
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.
My family is my sanctuary.
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.'
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
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.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
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!'
