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" I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation. "
Liam Neeson
Looking
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" 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. "
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Film
Me
Money
" I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20. "
Liam Neeson
Late
Swim
Water
" 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
Mind
Door
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
Think
Want
You
" 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
Building
Know
Life
" It's an ongoing joy being a dad. "
Liam Neeson
Joy
Father's Day
Dad
" 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
Wake Up
Morning
Drive
" As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor. "
Liam Neeson
Actor
Know
Hollywood
" 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
Joy
Parenting
Grow
" 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
Four
Help
Poor
" 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.' "
Liam Neeson
Say
Today
Tomorrow
" I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's. "
Liam Neeson
World
Queen
Meet
" 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
Interview
Me
Talk
" The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. "
Liam Neeson
Wonderful
Changes
Lighting
" 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
Acting
Kind
Go
" I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. "
Liam Neeson
Had
Ambition
Desire
" Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist? "
Liam Neeson
Anything
Why
Would
" Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. "
Liam Neeson
Most
Down
Important
" Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. "
Liam Neeson
Years
Duty
Festival
" You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track. "
Liam Neeson
You
Life
Think
" 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.' "
Liam Neeson
Say
You
Me
" Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. "
Liam Neeson
Queen
Arts
Beyond
" I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday. "
Liam Neeson
Character
Tuesday
Know
" I keep fit as much as I can. "
Liam Neeson
Fit
I Can
Keep
" I can always act. "
Liam Neeson
Act
I Can
Always
" 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. "
Liam Neeson
Walk
Someone
Prayer
" 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. "
Liam Neeson
Think
Commitment
Energy
" I gravitate toward women. "
Liam Neeson
Toward
Women
Gravitate
" But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. "
Liam Neeson
Say
Just
Iron
" 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
Theatre
People
New York