What did Liam Neeson say on the phone in Taken? Why is Liam Neeson always on the phone?

In the 2008 movie, Liam Neeson’s character’s daughter is kidnapped and while on the phone to the criminals, he has a monologue. The speech become a meme and is one of the most quoted lines in recent movie history.

Liam Neeson’s character’s private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife. He uses a phone to speak to the kidnappers,

Neeson’s monologue goes: “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.”

Liam Neeson portrayed Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy (2005–2010) and also starred in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002), Love Actually (2003), and Kinsey (2004). Neeson provided a voice for Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.