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" My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level. "
Kiefer Sutherland
Change
Music
Mood
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" 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. "
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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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" I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set. "
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" 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. "
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" When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Youth
Wrong
" 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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" I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer. "
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Love
" 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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Ugly
Mistakes
Movies
" '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.' "
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Training
Virtue
Job
" 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
Thought
Right
Extraordinary
" My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss. "
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Focus
Victims
Planes
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Kiefer Sutherland
Best
Say
Attitude
" I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first. "
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Excited
Shooting
First
" 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. "
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Play
Acting
Theatre
" 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. "
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Confidence
Better
Fear
" Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much. "
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Through
Days
" The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous. "
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Keep
Coming
Up
" My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it. "
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Only
Parents
Did
" 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. "
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Fun
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School
" 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. "
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You
Time
Interesting
" There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them. "
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Hate
Where
Them
" 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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Problem
Training
Television
" I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie. "
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Jumping
Seat
Horror
" There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom. "
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Never
Two
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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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Someone
Bottom
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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. "
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