Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

Related Quotes:

" '24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, 'The Sopranos' supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.' "

Kiefer Sutherland

" When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time. "

Kiefer Sutherland

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

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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!' "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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? "

Kiefer Sutherland

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

Kiefer Sutherland

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

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

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

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

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

Kiefer Sutherland

" My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?' "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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. "

Kiefer Sutherland

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

Kiefer Sutherland

" When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" 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