Quotes from Liam Neeson

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

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

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.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

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

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

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.

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

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.

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

Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.

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

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

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.

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?

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

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.'