Top 142 Quotes & Sayings by Liam Neeson
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.'
Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
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.
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.
I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?
Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.
It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
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 think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
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 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 have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
America has been very, very good to me.
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
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?
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.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
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.
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
I don't think I'm funny.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
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.
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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.
Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.
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.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
I'm very much a homebody.
I've never been in a street fight.
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.
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 never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
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.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
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.
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 love working with children.
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