Quotes By Liam Neeson

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

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

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

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I keep fit as much as I can.

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

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

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

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

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

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

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.'

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.

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.