Liam Neeson Quotes

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

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Stress

• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • May
  • Reality

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Mind
  • History
  • Perspective

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Finding

• All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Death
  • Day
  • Criticism

• There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Me
  • College
  • Learn

• They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Me
  • Daughter
  • Because

• I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Star
  • Never
  • Actor

• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Work
  • New

• You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Feel
  • Thing
  • Sore

• Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Society

• Vtrubique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere quae falsa sunt: verumque est illud quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere.

  

  Quintilian

• Art is not an end but a beginning.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Beginning

• I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

  

  David Cameron
  • Bad
  • Political
  • Rest

• In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • Feeling

• I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Great
  • She

• I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Remember
  • High
  • Game

• But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Levels
  • Stagnation
  • Commercialism

• 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