Liam Neeson
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.Collection: Parenting
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.Collection: Fathers
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.Collection: Morning
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Education
I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.Collection: Family
Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.
Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.
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.
Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
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.
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 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 easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.
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.
It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
I keep fit as much as I can.
I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.
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 have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
I don't think I'm funny.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
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 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.
I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.
It's best to keep acting real.
I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
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 think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
I can always act.
I loved school.
I've never been in a street fight.
I'm very much a homebody.
You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
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 love working with children.