FastSaying

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.


Pierce Brosnan

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and D...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why...
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
MIRANDA OTTO You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.
CHESTER BENNINGTON As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to ...
KATHRYN MCCORMICK If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because ...
MITCH ALBOM The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the A...
DEV PATEL If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that yo...
ANTONIN SCALIA You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss...
LEXI THOMPSON One of the things about our game is that you have to prove yourself every day. The younger guys may ...
JEFF CHRISTIAN Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
BEAU GARRETT In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of th...
BRENDAN DOOLING I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not...
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR When you have new faces, you have to re-prove yourself. I knew that coming to Spring Training.
JASON REPKO I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen...
CHRISTOPHER LEE There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemploy...
FRANCES MCDORMAND You're always going to have terrorism.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, man...
BEN SCHWARTZ With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
TOM HIDDLESTON You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and lo...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human...
KATE BALDWIN It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people...
LUPITA NYONG'O It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in ...
RICK YUNE We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different ...
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memo...
WAYNE ROONEY You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they'...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within t...
BARRY DILLER If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't ...
HENRY ROLLINS Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international ...
SCOTT HAMILTON The real show is when you have to prove yourself to yourself
SIDDHARTH JAIN Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, sel...
KATHARINE HEPBURN The whole Bond thing has gotten so dour with the direction they've been going in, it feels like ...
ADAM WINGARD I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing ...
JULIETTE BINOCHE You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yo...
MEL BROOKS At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I am still learning and still have a lot to learn. I still have a lot to prove. Playing this game yo...
IKE TAYLOR You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you,...
PHIL ANSELMO It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always i...
JOHN OLIVER I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's ...
JULIANNE MOORE I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lyi...
JOHN RITTER You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're...
MISTY COPELAND That's a mistake, because you don't get a chance to mingle with the media, you don't go into what I ...
BILL GREEN In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to pr...
ARIJIT SINGH I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ...
CHRISTINE QUINN I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect...
LARA LOGAN The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have ...
MARJANE SATRAPI Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth...
DAVID KAY Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. Yo...
MIRA SORVINO Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
ANTHONY RAPP I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other ...
RACHEL MINER If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always g...
IRVINE WELSH It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
EDDIE REDMAYNE Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'Y...
DEBRA WINGER As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yoursel...
TROY VINCENT The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play...
CAMERON MONAGHAN As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to rem...
DOMINIC MODISE Always test yourself against your own past! This is a mind game! If you play this game well, only th...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long...
JEFF BEZOS With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for s...
PIERCE BROSNAN You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.
SUSIE BRIGHT You're going to be friends with people longer than you're going to be teammates in this game...
FREDDIE FREEMAN There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you&...
NATALIE PORTMAN You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a diffe...
BOB CORKER Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an act...
WILLIAM HURT Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the s...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because ...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down...
PABLO SANDOVAL Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're ...
MILA KUNIS I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.
DAVID HORNSBY You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers.
NICOLE POLIZZI As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take every...
TATIANA MASLANY When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.
ANALEIGH TIPTON I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help...
PATRICIA HEATON Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you're giving yourself a chance.
DRAYMOND GREEN There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfie...
ASHTON EATON Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to ...
NATALIE MASSENET When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, becau...
NAOMI JUDD I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot a...
JOELLE CARTER My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not t...
KATEE SACKHOFF If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life...
MIA MAESTRO You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourse...
YAO MING I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've l...
MARY J. BLIGE I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never kn...
WIZ KHALIFA In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're...
GLORIA ESTEFAN You're always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you ...
TOM ELLIS Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting...
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
ADAM PEATY Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won...
IKE BARINHOLTZ To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if y...
AIMEE GARCIA I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce ...
ALAN ALDA I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 s...
RACHEL WARD If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because n...
JADE JAGGER When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's mo...
CINDY MARGOLIS It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't emp...
HENRY ROLLINS

More Pierce Brosnan

I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
PIERCE BROSNAN From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a gre...
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen throug...
PIERCE BROSNAN Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set...
PIERCE BROSNAN Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together ...
PIERCE BROSNAN To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
PIERCE BROSNAN With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for s...
PIERCE BROSNAN Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are cont...
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
PIERCE BROSNAN I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
PIERCE BROSNAN Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
PIERCE BROSNAN I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
PIERCE BROSNAN Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million insta...
PIERCE BROSNAN I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pret...
PIERCE BROSNAN I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in t...
PIERCE BROSNAN A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee...
PIERCE BROSNAN Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ulti...
PIERCE BROSNAN I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
PIERCE BROSNAN Can you believe how handsome he is?
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
PIERCE BROSNAN People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a g...
PIERCE BROSNAN The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the res...
PIERCE BROSNAN There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm about to do scene 58 with the lovely Salma Hayek where we roll around on the beach naked and tal...
PIERCE BROSNAN I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
PIERCE BROSNAN Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
PIERCE BROSNAN I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compos...
PIERCE BROSNAN To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it sc...
PIERCE BROSNAN When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and decla...
PIERCE BROSNAN I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' '...
PIERCE BROSNAN I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.
PIERCE BROSNAN James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
PIERCE BROSNAN I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, Mor...
PIERCE BROSNAN Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism o...
PIERCE BROSNAN Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
PIERCE BROSNAN I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.
PIERCE BROSNAN I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and...
PIERCE BROSNAN I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.
PIERCE BROSNAN Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed ...
PIERCE BROSNAN You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have t...
PIERCE BROSNAN I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And yo...
PIERCE BROSNAN Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and...
PIERCE BROSNAN Whether they made the right choice, who knows?
PIERCE BROSNAN The Thomas Crown Affair
PIERCE BROSNAN brought the tone, and he brought it hard and fast. He picked up and carried Sunset, which was really...
PIERCE BROSNAN I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
PIERCE BROSNAN It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have th...
PIERCE BROSNAN I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.
PIERCE BROSNAN I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
PIERCE BROSNAN There's always been product placement in Bond movies.
PIERCE BROSNAN I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any...
PIERCE BROSNAN It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to b...
PIERCE BROSNAN The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
PIERCE BROSNAN Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just c...
PIERCE BROSNAN The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and ...
PIERCE BROSNAN I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter...
PIERCE BROSNAN In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own...
PIERCE BROSNAN You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
PIERCE BROSNAN I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a ...
PIERCE BROSNAN I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated ...
PIERCE BROSNAN We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world witho...
PIERCE BROSNAN When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Iri...
PIERCE BROSNAN I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriou...
PIERCE BROSNAN Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
PIERCE BROSNAN When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
PIERCE BROSNAN No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
PIERCE BROSNAN My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
PIERCE BROSNAN I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
PIERCE BROSNAN The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then yo...
PIERCE BROSNAN Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time...
PIERCE BROSNAN It's statistically impossible to have the Red Sox and Yankees in the Series every year.
TIM BROSNAN People can say whatever they want to say, but the facts speak for themselves, ... When it comes to n...
TIM BROSNAN Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
TAMORA PIERCE The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking...
TAMORA PIERCE Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter ...
TAMORA PIERCE We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every ...
TAMORA PIERCE I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
TAMORA PIERCE I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third p...
TAMORA PIERCE I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to...
TAMORA PIERCE Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. ...
TAMORA PIERCE Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
TAMORA PIERCE You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself bes...
TAMORA PIERCE With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don'...
TAMORA PIERCE If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would ...
TAMORA PIERCE After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really...
TAMORA PIERCE What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves t...
TAMORA PIERCE I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any ...
TAMORA PIERCE What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achiev...
TAMORA PIERCE My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull...
TAMORA PIERCE One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my chara...
TAMORA PIERCE If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, ...
TAMORA PIERCE I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
TAMORA PIERCE Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...
TAMORA PIERCE I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image le...
TAMORA PIERCE I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked i...
TAMORA PIERCE Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Wh...
TAMORA PIERCE Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve...
TAMORA PIERCE I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.
TAMORA PIERCE George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think...
TAMORA PIERCE Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...
TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.
TAMORA PIERCE This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...
TAMORA PIERCE I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...
TAMORA PIERCE You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brigh...
PIERCE BROWN Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than th...
AMBROSE PIERCE It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
TAMORA PIERCE Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
TAMORA PIERCE The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a...
TAMORA PIERCE Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
FRANKLIN PIERCE We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are respons...
CHARLIE PIERCE 'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligat...
CHARLIE PIERCE I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.
PIERCE BROWN Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about wha...
PAUL PIERCE Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising pa...
CHARLIE PIERCE Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, ...
WENDELL PIERCE Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
PAUL PIERCE Kids get influenced by other kids.
PAUL PIERCE At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I ...
PAUL PIERCE The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.
PAUL PIERCE I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
PAUL PIERCE My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way h...
PAUL PIERCE 'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.
PAUL PIERCE I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm d...
PAUL PIERCE I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around ...
PAUL PIERCE I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3...
PAUL PIERCE I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a ...
PAUL PIERCE Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try...
PAUL PIERCE When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out ...
PAUL PIERCE I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
PAUL PIERCE Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me ...
PAUL PIERCE I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on ...
PAUL PIERCE The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
PAUL PIERCE A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back whe...
PAUL PIERCE I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approa...
PAUL PIERCE My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and h...
PAUL PIERCE When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go...
PAUL PIERCE The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
PAUL PIERCE I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play d...
PAUL PIERCE There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line...
PAUL PIERCE I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
PAUL PIERCE Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra...
TAMORA PIERCE A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
TAMORA PIERCE That’s what Society does—spread the blame so there is no villain
PIERCE BROWN I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It...
BEN PIERCE A lot of the technology stocks may be down lately, but people who have been holding good old blue ch...
BEN PIERCE People tend to do much of their tax planning late in the year.
BEN PIERCE What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to ...
BEN PIERCE Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation,...
BEN PIERCE Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
PIERCE BROWN I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall...
TAMORA PIERCE Scary with you is better than scary without you
TAMORA PIERCE Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
TAMORA PIERCE Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The ...
PIERCE BROWN I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp
TAMORA PIERCE Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pi...
TAMORA PIERCE Guys ask me when I'm going to be back, and I don't have no answer for them. At the same time, I've g...
ANTONIO PIERCE We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll b...
ANTONIO PIERCE He's revived. He's coming back with a chip on his shoulder.
ANTONIO PIERCE maybe the smartest player we have.
ANTONIO PIERCE Jay's my boy ... He's saved our butt three or four times,
ANTONIO PIERCE That's how serious he is about proving himself. This isn't even about playing with a chip on your sh...
ANTONIO PIERCE We played those guys as tough as anybody at their place. We put ourselves in a position to win, and ...
ANTONIO PIERCE When I first signed here, I was told by Coach Coughlin, the defensive coordinator, everybody, 'We ha...
ANTONIO PIERCE We knock those guys off next week, we might not have the best record in the N.F.C., but we'd have th...
ANTONIO PIERCE It felt real good, ... Just to go out and prove that I can do it week in and week out. Not just to t...
ANTONIO PIERCE The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality i...
CHARLIE PIERCE A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absu...
FRANKLIN PIERCE Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,...
CHARLIE PIERCE Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere ...
MARY PIERCE The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow...
CHARLIE PIERCE