Quotes By Liam Neeson

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

I loved school.

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

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

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.

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

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 can always act.

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.'

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

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.