Kiefer Sutherland Quotes
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When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.
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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
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What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.
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I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
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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.
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You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
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I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
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I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
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There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
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You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.
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I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.
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I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.
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My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
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I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.
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The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
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I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it.
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Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.
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I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
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I think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, just to work with those actors, you take that opportunity when you get it.
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The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.
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Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.
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If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
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I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.