Liam Neeson

“Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.”

“I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.”

“Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.”

“But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.”

“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.”

“I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.”

“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.”

“I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.”

“Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.”

“I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.”

“I'm very much a homebody.”

“The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.”

“I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.”

“Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.”

“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...”

“I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.”

“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 a...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.”