Michael Moriarty

“I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.”

“I love the theater of me.”

“The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.”

“I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.”

“Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.”

“Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.”

“I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.”

“As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.”

“Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.”

“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.”

“I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.”

“When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.”

“When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's 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.'”

“Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.”

“I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.”

“Life is best when you are in love.”

“I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.”

“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.”

“I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now.”

“Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.”