A biography for Liam Neesonhasn’t been written yet.
“Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.”
“I gravitate toward women.”
“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.”
“I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.”
“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.”
“Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.”
“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 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.”
“America has been very, very good to me.”
“But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.”
“Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.”
“I don't think I'm funny.”
“The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.”
“I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.”
“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.”
“I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.”