10"I’m giving you the opportunity to walk out with your life."

In the process, Bond slowly uncovers a plot to raise petroleum prices by causing a nuclear meltdown.

Just because he has a license to kill, that doesn’t mean he wants to use it.

Pierce Brosnan as James Bond

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8"Yeah, well, David beat Goliath in the book I read."

The film was produced by Brosnan’s production company, Irish DreamTime, and received generally positive reviews.

7"Could this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?"

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) stands in a light suit, aiming a pistol as he stands in the bedroom of a coastal villa.

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6"Just consider me the best cocktail party story you ever met."

If that isn’t a great story to take back home, what is then?

Eventually, one of those people is going to extinguish the other."

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4"Vodka martini, plenty of ice… if you might spare it."

3"Regret is usually a waste of time, as is gloating."

2"I have been known to keep my tip up."

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1"James Bond, Stiff-Ass Brit."

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Pierce Brosnan sitting in a car with two children sitting next to him in Evelyn (2002)

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Pierce Brosnan looking at Geoffrey Rush in The Tailor of Panama

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Pierce Brosnan on the phone while walking with Olga Kurylenko in a crowd of people in The November Man (2014)

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Pierce Brosnan as James Bond looking unimpressed in Die Another Day

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Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown spreading his arms confidently in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

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James Bond discuss an explosive pen bomb gadget with Q in the film GoldenEye.

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GoldenEye