Neeson Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

I can always act. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding. — Liam Neeson

I'm fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I've done a few of them. I'm comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I'm reasonably fit, and it's fun to do actually. I'm like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff. — Liam Neeson

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

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. — Liam Neeson

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist? — Liam Neeson

Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic. — Liam Neeson

Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow. — Liam Neeson

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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 going to hear her. — Liam Neeson

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

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

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

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows. — Liam Neeson

Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives. — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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.' — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small. — Liam Neeson

Standing under freezing cold showers every morning, - I did that. I got up to seven minutes most mornings, and it actually works; it immunizes your body, and your body starts getting used to the cold. It really works. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

Forget the statistics ... we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help. — Liam Neeson

It's best to keep acting real. — Liam Neeson

Live and die on this day ... Live and die on this day ... — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star. — Fred Melamed

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me. — Liam Neeson

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.' — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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

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

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. — Liam Neeson

When you have Liam Neeson in a film, no matter how good everyone else is, it's a Liam Neeson film. And if there's wolves, and you're running, it's about Liam Neeson running from wolves. — Frank Grillo

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. — Liam Neeson

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children — Liam Neeson

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

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. — Liam Neeson

Men fear most what they cannot see. — Liam Neeson

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

It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted. — Liam Neeson

I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. I'd done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: "Wow!" They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: "I definitely want to do this!" — Agyness Deyn

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else. — Dana Delany

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share, — Liam Neeson

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind. — Liam Neeson

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good. — Liam Neeson

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

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

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

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them. — Liam Neeson

Making a film, you do need stamina, whether you're doing fight scenes or not. It's important to keep fit. I'm not talking about having perfect abs and stuff, but you've got to be on top of your game, especially if you're playing the lead. You have to look after yourself. — Liam Neeson

We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries. Why not forgive each other? Decide to accept each other's differences and move on. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

I've never been in a street fight. — Liam Neeson

I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging. — Liam Neeson

When a man gets cheated on, I'm like, 'Meh, he'll find somebody else.' When a woman gets cheated on, that's a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect - you had a great love and the universe took her. — Patti Stanger

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. — Liam Neeson

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

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing. — Liam Neeson

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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.' — Liam Neeson

Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience. — Liam Neeson

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? — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends. — Liam Neeson

I love working with children. — Liam Neeson

Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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. — Liam Neeson

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

It's always fun to do the fight sequences and then to complete them, because some of them are quite complicated - with guns and so on - and there's always things that can go wrong. It's fun to shoot those things because we rehearse them very strenuously. It's fun to shoot them, and fun to know they're finished, that they're in the can so to speak. — Liam Neeson