Quotes By Liam Neeson

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

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

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

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

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

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'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.'

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.