Kiefer Sutherland

“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.”

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

“There's 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.”

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

“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.”

“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?'”

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

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

“There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.”

“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.”

“The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.”

“Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.”

“I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.”

“My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.”

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