Quotes By Liam Neeson

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.

I don't think I'm funny.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I keep fit as much as I can.

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

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'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.

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.

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 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.

It's best to keep acting real.

I'm very much a homebody.

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.

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