I'm about to do scene 58 with the lovely Salma Hayek where we roll around on the beach naked and talk about some silly diamond, ... And the boys are telling me that the negotiations have stopped. When the message was delivered, it was a body blow. I said, 'What does that mean?' They said, 'We don't know. But they'll call you next Friday. Five-thirty.'
- Pierce Brosnan
It never felt real to me.
- Pierce Brosnan
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 phoney doing them.
- Pierce Brosnan
It was great fun, great fun.
- Pierce Brosnan
It would have been sweet to go back for a fifth [installment]. I was just getting the hang of it, you know? ... It would have been wonderful to go out there for one last game and pass the baton.
- Pierce Brosnan
I've said it all already, and it's boring.
- Pierce Brosnan
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
- Pierce Brosnan
One phone call, that's all it took!.
- Pierce Brosnan
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.
- Pierce Brosnan
That's it, ... I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.
- Pierce Brosnan
The older you get the stronger you have to get. Getting old is not for sissies.
- Pierce Brosnan
The only thing I see here with the celebrities is that they do go overseas, like Pierce Brosnan - who's not even an American citizen, he's an Irishman, unfortunately - and they present a perception of America that's flat-out not true. For that they should be chastised.
- Pierce Brosnan