Pierce Brosnan

Actor

1953-05-16

Quotes by Pierce Brosnan

• 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.'

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• I like playing thieves.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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