Liam Neeson quotes Oscar nominee for 'Schindler's List' (1993) Born: 06/07/1952 Country: ireland

• 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. (Liam Neeson) [morning]
• 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. (Liam Neeson)
• And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life. (Liam Neeson) [mind/life]
• And I have a Harley Davidson, which I tinker with and ride. But I'm a strict 50-miles-an-hour - top speed 55 when I push - kind of guy. (Liam Neeson) [top/speed]
• And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me. (Liam Neeson) [institute/film/interview/television]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [sex/institute/help]
• But I can regale you with anecdotes about Collins, about how, when word came to him that so-and-so was an informer, he would always doubt it at first. He'd have warning letters written to suspected informers, and if the guy continued, he was warned again. (Liam Neeson) [warning/mail]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [death/death]
• But it's not some Hollywood version of the famous Kinsey reports about sexual behaviour. It's showing the greatness of the man but also his other side, warts and all, and it deals with the controversy about his personality, his research, his interview techniques and so on. (Liam Neeson) [greatness/personality/interview]
• But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. (Liam Neeson) [religion]
• But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be. (Liam Neeson) [sex/willpower]
• But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. (Liam Neeson) [argument/sex/more/adultery]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [time/joy]
• Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. (Liam Neeson) [thing/life]
• I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right? (Liam Neeson)
• I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry. (Liam Neeson) [science/university]
• I grew up in Ballymena, a hardworking town, like in most of Northern Ireland. (Liam Neeson)
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [love]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [people/help]
• I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. (Liam Neeson)
• I'm absolutely crazy about fly fishing. (Liam Neeson) [crazy/fishing]
• I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday. (Liam Neeson) [character]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [night/reading/mind/think]
• In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? (Liam Neeson) [day/think/right/people]
• In my general reading in my twenties I think I became aware of the Kinsey reports and the effect they had of American society. (Liam Neeson) [reading/think/society]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [look/face/spirit/human]
• It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing. (Liam Neeson) [more/more/people/give]
• Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other. (Liam Neeson)
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [people/theatre/europe]
• Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us. (Liam Neeson) [day/school]
• 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. (Liam Neeson) [think/look/think]

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