Quotes from Pierce Brosnan

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

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 have no desire to look at myself.

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.

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

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.

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

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

Education isn't a result. It's a process.

I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.