Donald Sutherland famous quotes

03-22-2025

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
-- Donald Sutherland

#Beautiful #Hopeful #Negative
I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Thinking #Acting #Cynicism
It's the things we love most that destroy us.
-- Donald Sutherland
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Country #Government #Cost
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Wife #Passionate #My Wife
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Imagination #Catalyst
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Lying #Ambition #Government
What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Hate #People #Growth
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Experts #Measurement #Opinion
I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Silly #Looks #Littles
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Fire #Trying #Too Much
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Truth #Reality #People
Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
-- Donald Sutherland

#Artistic #Casts #Wells
At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Age #Roles #Way
But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Scotch #Circles #Sitting
I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Son #Wife #Three
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Mistake #Years #Dumb
I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Play #Guy #Able
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Dirty #Play #Careers
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Jobs #Years #People
I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Wife #Location #Film
He doesn't translate well into our generation.
-- Donald Sutherland

#Our Generation #Generations #Aging

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