Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?

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.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

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.

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.

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

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

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

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

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

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 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.

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

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

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

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

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.

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

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. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'

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

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

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

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.

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.

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.

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.

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.

Theres 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.

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.

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

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've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

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

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