Liam Neeson

Actor

1952-06-07

Liam Neeson is a Northern Irish actor known for Schindler's List, Taken, and Michael Collins. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in Schindler's List.

Books by Liam Neeson

Darkman
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Quotes by Liam Neeson

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
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I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
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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.
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Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.
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