Quotes from Pierce Brosnan

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

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 always wanted to do a Western.

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

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

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

Certain projects find you at the right time.

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

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.

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

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 love the finer things.

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.

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

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

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.

I love George Clooney; I think George is brilliant.