Kiefer Sutherland

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.”

“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.”

“If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'”

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

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

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

“You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”