Top 142 Quotes & Sayings by Liam Neeson - Page 2

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

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

I keep fit as much as I can.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

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 can always act.

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

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

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.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

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

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

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

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

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

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

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

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

You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.

I gravitate toward women.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

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.

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

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

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

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

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

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 loved school.

It's best to keep acting real.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Listen, I know how old I am and that I'm just a shoulder injury from losing roles like the one in Taken. So I stay with the training, I stay with the work. It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That's effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

Men fear most what they cannot see.

We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.

It's still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it's there to be explored. It's there for our children to go out and explore and explore different cultures and learn from it. I never lose hope.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world