Pierce Brosnan Quotes

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!

I had watched 'Stanley Ka Dabba' and wanted to be a part of Gupte's kind of cinema. As an actor, I am hungry for diverse roles and my sole aim is to learn as much I can from him.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.