Pierce Brosnan

“I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.”

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

“I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.”

“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.”

“I love George Clooney; I think George is brilliant.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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'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 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.”

“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 try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes.”

“Love is hard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.”