Quotes from Pierce Brosnan

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

I'm a journeyman actor.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

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.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

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.

I love 'Maxim, ' actually. It's very cool.

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.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

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.

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.

I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.

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

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.

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.

My wife loves Roger Moore.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

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.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.