Michael Moriarty famous quotes

03-28-2025

Life is best when you are in love.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Life Is
I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Death #Dying #Live It Up
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium weve got right now.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Attitude #Hate #People
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Thinking #Doors #Rights
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Sports #Art #Drinking
As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Jobs #Airports #Long
When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Levels #Want #Saws
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Acting #Calling #Kind
Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Kind #Made
Film is something that came later into my life.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Film
Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Dream #American Dream
The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Running #Hands #Order
Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Christian #Islamic #Passion
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Law #America #Drug
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Golden #Court #Shore
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Law #Should #Attorney
Ive had the most wonderful life.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Wonderful #Wonderful Life
I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Mind #Intellectual #Roles
When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Water #Political #Persons
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Giving #Imagination #Want
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Honesty #Language #Clarity
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'
-- Michael Moriarty

#Health #Law #Taxation Without Representation
I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
-- Michael Moriarty
Interviews don't go to the core of my life,
-- Michael Moriarty

#Interviews
Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Death #People #Dying
Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Book #Open Book
Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
-- Michael Moriarty

#Years #Citizens #Irs

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