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Liam Neeson Quotes

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: irish
Birth: June 7, 1952

Topics

Change Power Social Change Movies

I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of a crazy talk-show host. But there was a specific function. 'On Dancing With The Stars', I had nothing to do but be me, schlepping around the floor. And when I host 'America's Got Talent', that's really me just talking to regular folks.

Stars Talent Me Crazy Talking News

My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

Family Past Year You Back Sometimes

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

Age Information Teachers Task Out

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

People Doing Extraordinary Normal

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.

Music Age Justice Loved You Nothing

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

Home Blessed Grow Interesting Back

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Mistake People Design Trying Fools

I think that fashion, in general, is a world of super-heightened glamour, and when you talk about super-heightened glamour, the first thing that comes to mind is a drag queen.

Queen Mind World Fashion Think You

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

Christopher Lee

Me Done Become Because Iconic Lot

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

Christina Ricci

Rejection Lose Looks Healthy She

My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.

Cornelia Parker

Mother Waiting You Wrong Wrong Thing

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Success Stupid Become Got Come Been

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