Pierce Brosnan Quotes

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

You have to be someone.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

When I started to trust myself to be an actor, and to be considered that way and consider myself, that is when people started to see me in that way because that was the truth then, as opposed to me being a stunt girl going, 'Please see me as an actor, please see me as an actor!' when I didn't see myself that way.

People always told me that nothing would match my face, my structure other than roles of sophisticated, educated women. I felt it was an insult to me.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.