Pierce Brosnan Biography

Moving to London with his family at an early age, Irish-born actor Pierce Brosnan made ends meet as a commercial illustrator and cab driver before turning to acting full-time. After training at the London Drama Centre, Brosnan made his West End stage bow in 1976, and appeared in his first film, The Long Good Friday, four years later. American audiences got their first glimpse of the charismatic, muscular young actor in the 1981 network miniseries The Manions of America. The following year, he was cast as the suave adventurer hero of the weekly TV series Remington Steele. Brosnan's casual panache and his gift for quippery led the producers of the James Bond movies to select him as the new Bond upon the departure of Roger Moore in 1986. However, at the last moment, the canceled Remington Steele was renewed, and Brosnan was contractually obligated to remain with the program, forcing him to relinquish the James Bond role to Timothy Dalton. Insult was later added to injury when it became evident that the renewal of Steele was something of a subterfuge by its producers to keep Brosnan on their leash. This professional setback was further compounded by personal tragedy seven years later when Brosnan's actress wife Cassandra Harris died after a long illness. The actor began to regain his motion picture bankability when he was cast in a choice secondary role in the 1993 comedy megahit Mrs. Doubtfire. In 1995, he finally got his chance to play Agent 007 in GoldenEye, and proved that the producer's instincts were right on target. Brosnan not only provided a much-needed boost for the ailing series, but also cemented his status as a capable leading man in a variety of roles, ranging from the title character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1996) to a stuffy, love-struck professor who meets a ludicrous fate in Mars Attacks! (1996) to a courageous vulcanologist trying to save a town threatened by a reawakened volcano in Dante's Peak (1997). Brosnan played Bond for the second time in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), essaying the role with great success. Following his turn as the titular thief in the stylish 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, the actor went on to his third Bond outing in The World is Not Enough, again proving that saving the world was most convincingly done by those with convincing tans, straight teeth, and plenty of fun gadgets. And the world isn't the only thing Bond saved. While, the next half-decade found Brosnan stumbling with disappointments like The Tailor of Panama and The Laws of Attraction, he found box office success with the Bond franchise yet again 2002 with his final film in the franchise, Die Another Day. He soon followed this with a critically acclaimed comedic performance in the sleeper hit The Matador, before signing on for the highly anticipated film adaptation of the Abba inspired musical Mama Mia!. Next up, Brosnan would appear in some more dramatic fare like Remember Me before lightening up once more for the romantic comedy I Don't Know How She Does It. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. James Bond: Morning Q sorry about the leg. Skiing?
  2. Q: Hunting!
  From GoldenEye. Submitted by Aaron P (24 days ago)

• 1. Q: Pardon me for asking 007 but a perfect marksman isn't suppose to shoot his own boss.
  2. James Bond Agent 007: Check the replay you will find he's dead and she only has a flesh wound.
  From Die Another Day. Submitted by Aaron P (24 days ago)

• 1. Gustav Graves: You see Mr. Bond, you can't kill my dreams. But my dreams can kill you. Time to face destiny!
  2. James Bond Agent 007: Time to face gravity!
  From Die Another Day. Submitted by Aslan L (2 months ago)

• 1. Donald Kessler: We need a welcome mat, not a row of tanks!
  From Mars Attacks!. Submitted by Augusta M (4 months ago)

• 1. James Bond: No more foreplay.
  From GoldenEye. Submitted by Brendan C (5 months ago)

• 1. James Bond: Let's take the highway.
  From Tomorrow Never Dies. Submitted by Brendan C (5 months ago)

• 1. James Bond Agent 007: I've always been known to keep my tip up.
  From Die Another Day. Submitted by Brendan C (6 months ago)

• 1. Elektra King: I could have given you the world.
  2. James Bond: The world is not enough.
  3. Elektra King: Foolish sentiment!
  4. James Bond: Family motto.
  From The World Is Not Enough. Submitted by Jack P (7 months ago)

• 1. Mr. Brunner/Chiron: Take this, it is a powerful weapon.
  2. Percy Jackson: This is a pen.
  3. Percy Jackson: WOW.
  From Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Submitted by Andrew C (7 months ago)

• 1. James Bond Agent 007: So, you live to die another day! [to Graves]
  From Die Another Day. Submitted by Kai K (9 months ago)

• 1. Kid: Just what in the hell to you think you're doing?
  2. Gideon: I guess it makes sense: finished off by a youngin'.
  From Seraphim Falls. Submitted by Joey M (11 months ago)

• 1. James Bond: So it's a shadow operation?
  2. M: Just remember that shadows stay in front or behind...never on top.
  From The World Is Not Enough. Submitted by Eric J (11 months ago)

• 1. Sam: You always knew how to make an entrance.
  From Mamma Mia!. Submitted by Kaye E (13 months ago)

• 1. Donald Kessler: Nathalie? Nathalie, is that you?
  2. Nathalie Lake: Yes, How are you feeling?
  3. Donald Kessler: Not terribly good, i'm afraid.
  4. Nathalie Lake: May I ask you just one question?
  5. Donald Kessler: Sure, Of course you can, Nathalie.
  6. Nathalie Lake: Were you flirting with me on the show? Because if you were, I just want you to know that i liked it.
  7. Donald Kessler: You did? Really? I watched you quite a bit. I had something of a schoolboy crush on you for. Oh, Gosh, Ages!
  From Mars Attacks!. Submitted by Frank C (16 months ago)

• 1. James Bond: She always did like a good squeeze!
  From GoldenEye. Submitted by Eric J (17 months ago)

• 1. Mr. Brunner/Chiron: Percy take this, it's a powerful weapon.
  2. Percy Jackson: This is a pen?
  From Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Submitted by Daniel R (18 months ago)

• 1. Harry Dalton: When we get out of here and we will get out of here. What do you say we go down to Florida, we get ourselves a boat, and we stock it with all the nicest, yummiest things we can possibly get our hands on, and we go out there and we catch ourselves a big, old, fat fish?
  From Dante's Peak. Submitted by Adrian G (19 months ago)

• 1. Alec Trevelyan: For England, James?
  From GoldenEye. Submitted by john g (21 months ago)

• 1. James Bond: Name's Bond. James Bond
  From GoldenEye. Submitted by john g (21 months ago)

• 1. Narrator: Down here, it's like Nature has given everything a try: every color, every way of life, every shape.
  From Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans). Submitted by Breanna M (22 months ago)

• 1. Pastor Dan Day: Tell me. Did he have any family history?
  2. Gwen Vanderveer: Like genealogy?
  From Salvation Boulevard. Submitted by Chris P (22 months ago)

• 1. Alec Trevelyan: For England, James?
  2. James Bond: No, for me.
  From GoldenEye. Submitted by Wesley R (22 months ago)

• 1. Mark Taffin: Then maybe you shouldn't be living here!
  From Taffin. Submitted by Jonathan M (23 months ago)

• 1. Gideon: No wonder you don't talk much. Too busy thieving.
  From Seraphim Falls. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)