Kiefer Sutherland famous quotes

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Military #Training #Television

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

#Nervous

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

#Knowing #Not Knowing #Youth

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Thinking #Laughing #Way

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

#Emotional #Listening #Doe

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Father #Believe #Advice

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#I Love You #Daughter #Fun

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Mother #Believe #Profound

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Growing Up #Thinking #Years

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Believe #Character #Personality

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Thinking #People #Six

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Father #Son #Boys

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

#Mother #Two #Feet

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

#Gone #Television #Realizing

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

#Mother #Virginia #Saws

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

#Stuff #Way #My Way

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

#Peaceful #Sun #Feels

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

#Hard Times #Flavor #Months

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Sexy #Men #Thinking

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?
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Stars #Father #Expression

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

#Two #Doe #Bathroom

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

#Father #Dvds #Video

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Shooting #Firsts #Excited

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

#Play #Guitar #Favourite

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

#Loss #Focus #Towers

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Three #Needs #Band

Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Lonely #Falling In Love #Love Is

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.'
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Thinking #People #Flying

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

#People #Giving #Done

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

#Guy #Ordinary #Way

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

#Attitude #World #Film

When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Sorry #Hate #Men

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Boys #Thinking #Youth

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

#Shows #Turns #Wells

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. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Character #Bully #Criminals

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

#Mistake #Stupid #Moving

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Play #Acting #Theatre

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

#People #Guy #Levels

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?
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Phones #Rings

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 dont 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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Bored #Worry #Scripts

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Knowing #Not Knowing #Actors

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Believe #Successful #Sticks

Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Jesus #Believe #Son

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Baby #Self Worth #Years

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.
-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Lines #Want #Film