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

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Kiefer Sutherland
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 21
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Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland
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Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.
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There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
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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.
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There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.
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I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
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There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
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People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
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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.
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The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.
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I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
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I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.
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Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
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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.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.
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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.
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I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
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I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.
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I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
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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.
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