Quotes By Liam Neeson

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?

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 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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

I gravitate toward women.

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

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.

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

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

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