Quotes By 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.

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

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

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.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

It's best to keep acting real.

I'm very much a homebody.

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'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

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.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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