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" There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom. "
Kiefer Sutherland
Never
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" I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then. "
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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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" 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 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'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie. "
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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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" There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 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. "
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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 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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" I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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 wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it. "
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