Quotes from Pierce Brosnan

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.

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 think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

I like playing thieves.

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.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

I believe you can only draw from your own life as an actor. All the characters I've played, I only have my infinite eye and the presence of my life to take from.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

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 always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

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 had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

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

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.