100+ Liam Neeson Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "Liam Neeson interview: Hard man actor on Bono, Ralph Fiennes and his fear of guns". Interview With Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. September 12, 2014.

Topics: Country, Gun, America

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

Topics: Cowboy, Knights, Space, Jedi Knights

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

Topics: Reading, Boxers, Wonderful

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

Topics: Wonderful, Never Change, Mass, Lighting

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

Topics: Sex, Thinking, People

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

Topics: Movie, Vegas, Play

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

Topics: Kids, Cities, Dublin, Pluto, Throwing Up

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.

Topics: Children, Boys, Games, Working With Children

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

source: - "The Hard Luck and Beautiful Life of Liam Neeson". Interview With Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

Topics: Running, Thinking, Romance, Survived

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

Topics: Children, Eye, Looks

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.

Topics: New York, Europe, People, Half Way, Best Of Both Worlds

I'm fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I've done a few of them. I'm comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I'm reasonably fit, and it's fun to do actually. I'm like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff.

Topics: Fun, Kids, Fighting

I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we're seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby's response to Newtown was? The National Rifle Association's official response was, 'If that teacher had been armed' It's crazy.

source: - "Liam Neeson interview: Hard man actor on Bono, Ralph Fiennes and his fear of guns". Interview with Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. September 12, 2014.

Topics: Running, Country, Teacher

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

Topics: Prayer, Catholic, Acting

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Topics: Sex, Argument, Adultery

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

Topics: Girl, Daughter, Mother

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

Topics: Artist, Men, Views, Kinsey

Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic.

Topics: Believe, People, Risk

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.

Topics: Flirting, Lucky, Wake Up, Motorbike

I don't think I'm funny.

Topics: Funny, Thinking

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.

source: - "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

Topics: Pie, Dry, Littles, Graphs, Chunks

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

Topics: Quests, Accepting, Kinsey

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.

Topics: Television, Littles, Interviews, Kinsey

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

Topics: Acting, Actors, Goes On, Trailers

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.'

Topics: Maybe Tomorrow, Today, Rejected

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

Topics: Sex, Past, Thinking, Sex Symbol

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

Topics: Years, Festivals, Film, Jury Duty

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

Topics: Sex, Controversial, Knows

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

Topics: Venice, American History, Inception

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

Topics: Birthday, Water, Swim, Age Of 20

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.

Topics: Sex, Four, Biographies

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.

source: - "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.

Topics: Asking, Scripts, Sometimes

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

source: - "The Hard Luck and Beautiful Life of Liam Neeson" by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2011.

Topics: Jobs, Easy, Enough

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

Topics: Book, Reading, Atheism

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Topics: Art, Queens, Flags, Northern Ireland

It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.

source: - "Liam Neeson interview: Hard man actor on Bono, Ralph Fiennes and his fear of guns". Interview with Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. September 12, 2014.

Topics: Father, Thinking, Law

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.

Topics: Morning, Believe, Taken

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

source: - "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

Topics: Teacher, Teaching, Kids, Wonderful Teacher, Kinsey

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

Topics: Mind, Pace, Exorcism

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Topics: Kept Secrets

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Topics: Best Kept Secrets