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" I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!' "

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" When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies. "

Kiefer Sutherland

Film

Movies

Performance

" Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong. "

" I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto. "

" There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them. "

" I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it. "

Kiefer Sutherland

Love

Anybody

" I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea. "

" I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up. "

" I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then. "

" There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom. "

" When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. "

" Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary. "

" I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer. "

" 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. "

" I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect. "

" When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully. "

Kiefer Sutherland

I Can

You

" Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much. "

" There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts. "

" 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. "

" I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me. "

" I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues. "

" I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

Done

Feel

" The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous. "

Kiefer Sutherland

Keep

Coming

" My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss. "

" I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way. "