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.

- Pierce Brosnan

When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.

- Pierce Brosnan

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.

- Pierce Brosnan

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

- Pierce Brosnan

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

- Pierce Brosnan

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

- Pierce Brosnan

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

- Pierce Brosnan

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

- Pierce Brosnan

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

- Pierce Brosnan

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.

- Pierce Brosnan

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

- Pierce Brosnan

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.

- Pierce Brosnan

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

- Pierce Brosnan

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

- Pierce Brosnan

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

- Pierce Brosnan

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

- Pierce Brosnan

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.

- Pierce Brosnan

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

- Pierce Brosnan

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

- Pierce Brosnan

When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

- Pierce Brosnan