Quotes from Michael Moriarty

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 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.

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.

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

I'm the American Winston Churchill.

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

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

Life is best when you are in love.

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

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Film is something that came later into my life.

Ive had the most wonderful life.

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

Interviews don't go to the core of my life.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life, ' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

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.

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

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

I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats 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.

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.