Top 90 Liam Neeson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.”

— Liam Neeson

2. “I love it when a plan comes together.”

— Liam Neeson

3. “Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.”

— Liam Neeson

4. “It’s still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it’s there to be explored. It’s there for our children to go out and explore and explore different cultures and learn from it. I never lose hope.”

— Liam Neeson

5. “You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.”

— Liam Neeson

6. “Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.”

— Liam Neeson

7. “Men fear most what they cannot see.”

— Liam Neeson

8. “If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.”

— Liam Neeson

9. “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

10. “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.’”

— Liam Neeson

11. “Yes, I’m Catholic; I’m proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.”

— Liam Neeson

12. “I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”

— Liam Neeson

13. “I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.”

— Liam Neeson

14. “For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.”

— Liam Neeson

15. “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

16. “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.’”

— Liam Neeson

17. “I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don’t spar with anyone.”

— Liam Neeson

18. “I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.”

— Liam Neeson

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19. “The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all...”

— Liam Neeson

20. “I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?”

— Liam Neeson

21. “I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.”

— Liam Neeson

22. “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

23. “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

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

— Liam Neeson

25. “I keep fit as much as I can.”

— Liam Neeson

26. “Queen’s University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.”

— Liam Neeson

27. “I have friends who have daughters and there’s times I think I’m glad I have boys instead of girls.”

— Liam Neeson

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

— Liam Neeson

29. “I’m trying to be a comedian, you know?”

— Liam Neeson

30. “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?”

— Liam Neeson

31. “It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.”

— Liam Neeson

32. “I’m keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I’m not hunting. I’m the opposite of a – what would a male cougar be? Is there such a thing? Whatever it is, I’m not that.”

— Liam Neeson

33. “In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.”

— Liam Neeson

34. “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

35. “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

36. “It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.”

— Liam Neeson

37. “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

38. “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.”

— Liam Neeson

39. “Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you’re first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience.”

— Liam Neeson

40. “I don’t do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don’t consider fighting to be a stunt.”

— Liam Neeson

41. “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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42. “Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.”

— Liam Neeson

43. “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.”

— Liam Neeson

44. “I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.”

— Liam Neeson

45. “Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.”

— Liam Neeson

46. “Getting married and settling down isn’t the most important thing in my life.”

— Liam Neeson

47. “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

48. “Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.”

— Liam Neeson

49. “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

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

— Liam Neeson