Top 90 Liam Neeson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.”

— Liam Neeson

52. “I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.”

— Liam Neeson

53. “I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.”

— Liam Neeson

54. “To be honest, I’m scared to death of rollercoaster rides.”

— Liam Neeson

55. “Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone’s tomorrow.”

— Liam Neeson

56. “The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.”

— Liam Neeson

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “I don’t think I’m funny.”

— Liam Neeson

62. “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

63. “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

64. “People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it’s great for New York and it’s also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it’s the best of both worlds.”

— Liam Neeson

65. “I don’t know if I’m a strict parent or a pushover.”

— Liam Neeson

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

— Liam Neeson

67. “Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?”

— Liam Neeson

68. “When I see great boxers, it’s like reading a wonderful poem.”

— Liam Neeson

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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.”

— Liam Neeson

73. “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

74. “There’s a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn’t there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.”

— Liam Neeson

75. “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.”

— Liam Neeson

76. “I’m fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I’ve done a few of them. I’m comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I’m reasonably fit, and it’s fun to do actually. I’m like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff.”

— Liam Neeson

77. “Kinsey’s quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.”

— Liam Neeson

78. “I love doing my own stunts but it’s hard.”

— Liam Neeson

79. “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

80. “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

81. “It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.”

— Liam Neeson

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.”

— Liam Neeson

83. “The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it’s a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.”

— Liam Neeson

84. “But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.”

— Liam Neeson

85. “I gravitate toward women.”

— Liam Neeson

86. “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

87. “It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.”

— Liam Neeson

88. “There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.”

— Liam Neeson

89. “I’m not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.”

— Liam Neeson

90. “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.”

— Liam Neeson

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

— Liam Neeson

92. “I’ve made many films and only a few times I’ve played real people.”

— Liam Neeson

93. “Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.”

— Liam Neeson