Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

Kiefer Sutherland shares raw, emotional reflections on love and loneliness that feel like a late-night confession.

13 quotes

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

11. 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.

12. I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it.

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