Liam Neeson is a famous actor who hails from the country of Northern Ireland. He was born on the 7th of June in the year of 1952. He is currently aged 66 years old now. Liam Neeson was born in the small town of Ballymena in the city of County Antrim. He was raised in a Roman Catholic household. He was married to Natasha Richardson, who died in 2009 and has two children from his marriage. During his 20s, his country was involved in massive riots and violence erupted in Northern Ireland, which was described as ‘The Troubles’ which significantly impacted the young Neeson.
Liam Neeson started his acting career in the 1980s, and before that, he was briefly involved in a theatre in Belfast for two years. He was nominated for an Academy Award, and he won several prominent awards for his contribution to the American film industry. The actor gained widespread popularity after he starred as Oskar Schindler in the movie ‘Schindler’s List’ which was made in the year of 1993. He went to act in movies such as ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Grey’, and the Taken film series in the latter years of his acting career.
- “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.” – Liam Neeson
- “Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight, I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.” – Liam Neeson
- “You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you’re on another track.” – Liam Neeson
- “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.” – Liam Neeson
- “Getting married and settling down isn’t the most important thing in my life.” – Liam Neeson
- “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” – Liam Neeson
- “I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn’t understand what being an actor meant anymore.” – Liam Neeson
- “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
- “I don’t do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don’t consider fighting to be a stunt.” – Liam Neeson
- “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.” – Liam Neeson
- “I push one button and 38 agents are here before you have time to scratch your worthless balls.” – Liam Neeson
- “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.” – Liam Neeson
- “I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.” – Liam Neeson
- “If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.” – Liam Neeson
- “I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, ‘That’s real work.’” – 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.” – Liam Neeson
- “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
- “In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.” – Liam Neeson
- “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
- “For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.” – Liam Neeson
- “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
- “I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.” – Liam Neeson
- “There’s periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years… Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I’m gonna hear her.” – Liam Neeson
- “Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?” – Liam Neeson
- “Men fear most what they cannot see.” – Liam Neeson
- “If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.” – Liam Neeson
- “Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.” – Liam Neeson
- “We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.” – Liam Neeson
- “I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?” – Liam Neeson
- “It’s still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it’s there to be explored. It’s there for our children to go out and explore and explore different cultures and learn from it. I never lose hope.” – Liam Neeson
