Liam Neeson Quotes Page 2

“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 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.”

“I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I've never been in a street fight.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.”

“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.”

“It's an ongoing joy being a dad.”

“It's best to keep acting real.”

“It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.”

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

“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.”

“Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.”

“Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.”

“Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.”

“You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.”

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