I love working with children.
— Liam Neeson
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
America has been very, very good to me.
I can always act.
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.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.
You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
I don't think I'm funny.
I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
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.
I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.
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.
You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.
I've never been in a street fight.
I gravitate toward women.
I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
It's best to keep acting real.
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.
To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?
Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
I keep fit as much as I can.
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.
I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
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.'
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'm very much a homebody.
I loved school.
I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.
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