Pierce Brosnan Quotes

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.

I had done a bunch of stuff before I even went to Disney. I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.