Liam Neeson famous quotes

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Beauty #Morning #Thinking

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."
-- Liam Neeson

#Morning #Body #Cold

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#New York #Couple #Thinking

I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.
-- Liam Neeson

#Father #Men #Thinking

Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.
-- Liam Neeson

#Girl #Rising #Today

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Sex #Wall #School

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
-- Liam Neeson

#Kindness #Matter #Bigs

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Country #Revenge #Moving

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Inspirational #Baby #Race

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.
-- Liam Neeson

#Awards #People #Focus

We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.
-- Liam Neeson

#Country #Responsibility #Society

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Fighting #Talking #Games

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Inspiring #Time #Growing Up

I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.
-- Liam Neeson

#Growing Up #Spring #Hero

You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.
-- Liam Neeson

#Profound #Feelings #Earth

It's always fun to do the fight sequences and then to complete them, because some of them are quite complicated - with guns and so on - and there's always things that can go wrong. It's fun to shoot those things because we rehearse them very strenuously. It's fun to shoot them, and fun to know they're finished, that they're in the can so to speak.
-- Liam Neeson

#Fun #Fighting #Gun

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.
-- Liam Neeson

#Born

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.
-- Liam Neeson

#Lonely #Men #Islands

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

#Wonder #Unpredictable

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Morning #Fighting #Thinking

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.'
-- Liam Neeson

#Motivational #Race #Silence

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
-- Liam Neeson

#Hollywood #Action #Throwing

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.
-- Liam Neeson

#Parent #Strict #Pushovers

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
-- Liam Neeson

#Plot #Information #Computer

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Friday #Monday #Two

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Onions #Dinner #Odd

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Reading #Book #Night

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Girl #Men #Thinking

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
-- Liam Neeson

#Character #Tuesday #Actors

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
-- Liam Neeson

#Daughter #Mother #Son

I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
-- Liam Neeson

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
-- Liam Neeson

#Kings #Ambition #Play

I gravitate toward women.
-- Liam Neeson

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
-- Liam Neeson

#Sex #Thinking #Flattering

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?
-- Liam Neeson

#Comedian #Trying

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.
-- Liam Neeson

#Real #People #Film

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
-- Liam Neeson

#Children #Hiv #Needs

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?
-- Liam Neeson

#Thinking #Two #People

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
-- Liam Neeson

#Fun #Character #Kicks

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Littles #Tiny #Grew

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
-- Liam Neeson

#Children #Ongoing #Your Children

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
-- Liam Neeson

#Dad #Joy #Ongoing

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all...
-- Liam Neeson

#Children #World #Causes

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
-- Liam Neeson

#Fighting

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
-- Liam Neeson

#Boxing #Shadow #Bags