Top 100 Liam Neeson Quotes
#1. I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Live and die on this day ... Live and die on this day ...
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#9. I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
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#10. 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.
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#13. 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?
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#14. The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children
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#15. 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.
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#16. The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
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#17. Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries. Why not forgive each other? Decide to accept each other's differences and move on.
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#21. 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.
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#22. There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years ... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I'm going to hear her.
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#23. It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.
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#24. I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
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#25. I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.
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#26. 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.'
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#27. I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
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#28. Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.
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#29. But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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#30. It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
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#31. I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.
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#33. America has been very, very good to me.
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#34. I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
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#35. Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.
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#36. I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
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#37. Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
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#38. I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.
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#39. I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
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#40. I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
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#41. Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Standing under freezing cold showers every morning, - I did that. I got up to seven minutes most mornings, and it actually works; it immunizes your body, and your body starts getting used to the cold. It really works.
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#44. 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.
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#45. You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.
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#47. I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
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#49. I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.
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#54. 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.
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#55. For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
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#56. Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.
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#57. Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share,
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#58. Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.
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#59. I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.
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#62. I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
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#63. I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
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#66. Making a film, you do need stamina, whether you're doing fight scenes or not. It's important to keep fit. I'm not talking about having perfect abs and stuff, but you've got to be on top of your game, especially if you're playing the lead. You have to look after yourself.
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#67. When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
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#68. 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.
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#69. I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.
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#70. You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.
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#71. I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?
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#72. But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
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#73. It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
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#74. I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.
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#75. I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.
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#77. We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'
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#78. To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#81. I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
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#82. 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.
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#83. I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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.'
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#86. Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.
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#87. Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
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#88. I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
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#89. 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.
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#90. The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
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#91. I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
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#92. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.
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#94. Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
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#98. 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.
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#99. I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world
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#100. I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
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