Kiefer Sutherland Quotes
The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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Science is the locomotive that drives our civilization.
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I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
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The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.
