Liam Neeson
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Well, my mindset was I was just so thrilled to be acting and getting paid for it.
And it was literally as simple as that.
And, you know, I was 24 when I turned professional and, you know, still pretty much a kid.
And, you know, all this shit was happening out in the streets and stuff.
I felt I was in a bubble, my own bubble of joy doing these plays.
We did a different play every four weeks, you know.
Well, certainly my ambition then would have been, I mean, it wasn't, I never thought of movies at all.
That was unattainable for some reason.
But I thought, oh, wouldn't it be great to be in Britain's national theatre as a regular player, you know?
Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Robert Stevens, Colin Blakely, who was my hero.
He was from the north of Ireland too.
No, 1976 he did Hamlet, which was very, very good, which I saw.