Liam Neeson Quotes - Page 2

Irish - Actor Born: June 7, 1952

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

Love, Doing, My Own, Hard, Own, Stunts

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

Past, Think, Feel, Date, Just, I Think

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. Liam Neeson

Science, Page, Pie, Understand, Like

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. Liam Neeson

Dog, Morning, Acting, Too Much, Toilet

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

Day, People, Think, Know, You, Want

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

Man, Culture, Girl, Think, World, Story

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. Liam Neeson

Acting, You, Kind, Actor, Go, Like

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. Liam Neeson

Life, Mind, Down, Someone, Kind, Own

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. Liam Neeson

Help, Sex, Poor, Days, Four, Us

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. Liam Neeson

Death, Bike, Wake Up, Lucky, Never, Now

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. Liam Neeson

Religion, Say, Irish, Iron, Up, Just

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

Know, You, Sex, Always, Will, Just

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. Liam Neeson

Love, Children, Game, Know, You, Boy

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. Liam Neeson

Teacher, People, Help, Thought, Me

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. Liam Neeson

Building, Play, Need, Now, Like, Up

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

Character, Breakfast, Know, Tuesday, Had

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

Book, Mind, Reading, Night, Think, Door

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

Quest, Us, Accepting, Other, Really

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us. Liam Neeson

Work, Day, School, Know, You, Important

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

People, Think, Sex, Always, Well

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

Jury, Film, Duty, Years, Festival, Well

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. Liam Neeson

Man, Soul, Thought, View, Look, Artist

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. Liam Neeson

Commitment, People, Think, Energy, Real

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

God, Reading, Absence, Books, Atheism

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me. Liam Neeson

Action, Me, Movies, Hollywood, Throwing

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. Liam Neeson

Past, I Am, Think, Sex, Now, Date

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