Michael Moriarty Quotes

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Michael Moriarty

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 5, 1941

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

Michael Moriarty

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.

Michael Moriarty

The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

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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.

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

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

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I've had the most wonderful life.

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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.

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

Michael Moriarty

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

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

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Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

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

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I'm the American Winston Churchill.

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