When Liam Neeson‘s first Taken film released in 2008, it was somewhat of a resurgence among the popular crowd for the actor. Following the film’s release everyone wanted to talk about their “special skills,” one of the most popular excerpts from the film. While Neeson has made a name for himself as a top tier actor, he has also said some pretty incredible things outside of film. We decided to curate 20 Awesome Liam Neeson Quotes.
The compilation includes quotes from Liam Neeson as himself and we’ve also sprinkled in few of his famous lines from Taken as well as other films. Neeson’s most recent project Run All Night didn’t quite live up to the hype of the Taken series but did find the actor in an action-packed role to entertain fans. As Neeson continues to entertain fans well into his career we felt it fitting to gather 20 Awesome Liam Neeson Quotes for fans to enjoy.
“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.”
“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.”
“A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.”
“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.”
“I think I realized there were two communities in Northern Ireland when I was about nine or 10, not because there was any trouble but because in certain years my parents would keep us indoors on the 12th of July. I couldn’t figure that out, because all my mates were out dancing in the streets and I wanted to go out and join them. So it was then that I sensed a ‘them and us’ attitude.”
“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.”
“That’s like telling water not to be wet, sweetie.”
“Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate, or fair! And make no mistake—here, you face death.”
“I never did think of myself as handsome–terribly attractive, yes, but not handsome.”
“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.”
“I push one button and 38 agents are here before you have time to scratch your worthless balls.”
“I’m everyone… and no one. Everywhere… nowhere. Call me… Darkman.”
“I watched it about two months ago and I found it a little confusing and I was in the thing. I just couldn’t figure out who was who and what’s been done to him and why, a little bit. I mean, my kids totally understood it and got it. I don’t know. It’s a toss of the coin, sometimes, with these things. I thought it was a great ride and Joe [Carnahan] had done a great job. I thought it was cast well. But there you go – you never know.”
“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.”
“That is what happens when you sit behind a desk. You forget things, like the weight in the hand of a gun that’s loaded and one that’s not.”
“Power is when we have every justification to kill… and we don’t.”
“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.'”