Top 60 Liam Neeson Quotes

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

I gravitate toward women.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always, ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’ Then, ‘Yeah, Dad.’

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don’t spar with anyone.

In Los Angeles, it’s like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they’re morally right. That’s when you want to choke people, you know?

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, ‘OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I’ll get this other part or something.’

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it’s great for New York and it’s also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it’s the best of both worlds.

Acting with creatures that aren’t there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I’m totally convinced they’re death machines.

Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.

I loved school.

I can always act.

Getting married and settling down isn’t the most important thing in my life.

I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don’t jog. My body hates jogging.

I have friends who have daughters and there’s times I think I’m glad I have boys instead of girls.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you’ve had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that’s very important to us.

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I’ve worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

You can’t act being a boxer. It’s like being on stage.

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen’s.

But, you know, there’s still an argument, there’s still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they’re microscopic.

Yes, I’m Catholic; I’m proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

I keep fit as much as I can.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I’ll come across a sentence that’s totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I’ll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong – I should’ve opened the door more slowly.

I’d like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I’d need building up, though he’s very frail now.

I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got ‘re-pigeonholed’ as an action actor.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn’t understand what being an actor meant anymore.

I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

I think I’m past my due date. I just feel it.

I’m very much a homebody.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone’s life.

I’m trying to be a comedian, you know?

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

I’m not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Acting is invigorating. But I don’t analyse it too much. It’s like a dog smelling where it’s going to do its toilet in the morning.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

I do believe at the end of the night when you’re with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I don’t know if I’m a strict parent or a pushover.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

It’s extraordinary to look into a baby’s face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it’s something to be discussed.