Kiefer Sutherland Quotes
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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 feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
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My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
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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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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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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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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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I commend Julia for seeing how young and silly we were, even at the last minute, even as painful and as difficult as it was. Thank God she saw it.
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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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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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My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
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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 that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
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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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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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I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.
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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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I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
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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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If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.
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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 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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People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.