Quotes by Donald Sutherland - Page 1

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Wonderful Job
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It's the things we love most that destroy us.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Mockingjay
President Snow
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He doesn't translate well into our generation.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Aging
Generations
Our Generation
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Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Truth
People
Reality
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At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Age
Fart
Roles
Way
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I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Looks
Silly
Stupid
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The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
My Wife
Passionate
Wife
The Only Thing
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One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Experts
Measurement
Opinion
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I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Acting
Cynicism
Thinking
Acting Think About
Iota
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I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Film
Grabbing
Location
Wife
Distant
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I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Glad
Son
Three
Wife
Wonderful
Wife I Am Me
Sons
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I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Able
Guy
Play
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When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
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To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Imagination
Catalyst
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Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Artistic
Casts
Wells
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Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Amount
Bitterness
Certain
Fire
Too Much
Trying
Though
Tries
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I don't think I'm an actor who takes their characters home with him. But I certainly do take the preparation home.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Preparation
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I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Bottom
Careers
Dirty
Dozen
Play
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I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Jobs
Paid
People
Years
Planned
Wonderful People
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Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Lines
Trepidation
Joe
Specific
Wright
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Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Beautiful
Hopeful
Negative
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It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of people. It was a wonderful job. I've wanted to do it since I can remember.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Jobs
Play
Son
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I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Different
Son
Thinking
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I don't want to give up living, because I enjoy it so much, and I love working - I don't expect I'll ever have to stop. But Alzheimer's or something like that would render me pretty useless.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Love Me Living
Render
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I haven't been very good about dealing with disappointment. I suffer it, and then when that suffering becomes a kind of predation, then it's gone. Because the disappointment is not always realistic.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Disappointment
Realistic
Dealing
Suffer
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Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Dumb
Mistake
Years
Mistakes
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I just - I love my job. I love doing it. It's a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Endeavor
Love Time Truth
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Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Ambition
Iraq
Lying
Theory
Vietnam
Agenda
Bush
Domino
Lie
George
Helped
Imperialist
Laced
Political Agenda
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When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Blood
Eye
Thinking
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If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing that it exists, and the only thing I know are jokes about it.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Believe
Far Away
Heaven
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But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Circles
Lennon
Scotch
Sitting
Circle
John
Peripheral
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You're always working in the movie. Never was I me, and never have I been me, nor was he him. We were the two characters. But the character that I was playing was informed by my DNA, looking at him informed by his.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Character
Dna
Two
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I was at my dermatologist, and she asked me what I was doing next. I told her I was about to do something called 'The Hunger Games.' She gasped and started calling everyone into the room, and they all came running.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Hunger
Me Doing Everyone
Hunger Games
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We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Time Left
Treasure
Wanted
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I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Not Knowing
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No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Government
British
British Government
Cost
Country
Tax
Accountant
Curiously
Patently
Persuade
Taxing
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What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Contradiction
Growth
Hate
People
Criticized
Discuss
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You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Amount
Good Fortune
Hard Work
Pursuit
Talent
Terrific
Truth Work Good
Work Truth Good
Partner
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I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Opportunity
Character
Moving
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I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Fun
Games
Thinking
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I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Directors
Enough
Forsaken
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I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Dad
Actors
Ideas
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I thought, "Oh, my god, that's what happens every time I talk with a journalist in the middle of shooting and I talk about my character. I describe him, I objectify him, and I kill him." So, I've never spoken with a journalist in the middle of a film. I don't do the EPK until the very end of a film. I can't talk about Kiefer's process, but what he brings to the table is beautiful.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Beautiful
Character
Shooting
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When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Character
Night
Real
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I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Running
Dna
Writing
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When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them the next day. All directors look at the rushes, except for Fellini. I asked him why he didn't and said, "Because it interrupts my fantasy." What he was trying to say was that he had a three-dimensional, vibrant, living, volatile fantasy going on in his head, and when he looked at rushes, they were two-dimensional and they killed it.
Donald Sutherland / Actor
Next Day
Trying
Two
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