Pierce Brosnan
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Biography
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing James Bond in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).
"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."
"People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage."
"I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved."
"I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures."
"During my early years as an actor, Bond was never a desire, but when Cassie was playing in For Your Eyes Only, then, of course, it became a joke. I would do my own impersonations of James Bond. Just for fun. Just driving her home from work, or going out, or talking about her experience on it. But even so, it was not an ambition to play James Bond. I had my sights set on other aspects of the work."
"Prayer helped me with the loss of my wife to cancer and with a child who had fallen on tough times. Now prayer helps me to be a father, to be an actor and to be a man, 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. In a way (my life) all leads back to a little boy in Navan, my home town on the banks of the Boyne. Sometimes, it has been painted in melodramatic tones but it was a fantastic way to be brought up. The Catholicism and the Christian brothers, those are deep-rooted images and the foundation for a person of some acting skill, God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear. It is a constant, the language of prayer... I might not have got my sums right from the Christian Brothers or might not have got the greatest learning of literature from them but I certainly got a strapping amount of faith. But there is one thing that the people of Ireland know how to do and that is to survive. You have to keep your faith and stay optimistic."
"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."
"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 use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination."
"Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience."
"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."
"You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father."
"The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more."
"The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence."
"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 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool."
"I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars."
"I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor."
"I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram."
"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."
"There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life."
"My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad."
"I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches."
"I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now."