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" I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. "
Liam Neeson
Become
American
Still
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. "
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" I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. "
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" It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have. "
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" As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor. "
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" I love working with children. "
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" 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. "
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" Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man. "
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" 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. "
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" A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am. "
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Now
Date
" I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20. "
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Swim
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" 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. "
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I Am
Thought
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Support
Community
" I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer. "
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Someone
" Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. "
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Power
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" I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover. "
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" It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" I keep fit as much as I can. "
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" Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist? "
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" It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing. "
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" Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure. "
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World
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" 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.' "
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" 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? "
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Doing
Planet
Day