Pierce Brosnan Quotes

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I'm kind of arrogant and cocky when I play... It's kind of weird. It's like I have split personalities.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.