Top 100 Kiefer Quotes
#1. You make one tiny variable and so help me, I'll have you slaughtered where you sit. (Kiefer)
He's just such a nice man. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. I've always said, 'Besides Kiefer Sutherland, I talked on a cell phone more than any other actor on a TV show.'
Kevin Connolly
#3. I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.
Anton Corbijn
#4. When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains.
Christian Slater
#5. Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
Chelsea Handler
#6. Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people.
Paul Scheer
#7. Today Jacob is the Operations Director of the Kiefer Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plant for SMUD.
Charles Vrooman
#8. I don't care what you meant to do. I really don't.
I only care about what you actually do. That's important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.
Christian Kiefer
#9. Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.
Kiefer Sutherland
#10. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
Kiefer Sutherland
#11. Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.
Kiefer Sutherland
#12. One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.
Kiefer Sutherland
#13. Without her, part of my soul was missing. My heart had left with her, when she moved with Henry here, putting half the planet between us, making me wait for the rare phone calls.
Nicole Kiefer
#14. But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer
#15. I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
Kiefer Sutherland
#16. I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.
Kiefer Sutherland
#17. I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
Kiefer Sutherland
#18. When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
Kiefer Sutherland
#19. I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral ... it is a place between heaven and earth.
Anselm Kiefer
#20. I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
Kiefer Sutherland
#21. When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
Kiefer Sutherland
#22. I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.
Kiefer Sutherland
#23. My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
Kiefer Sutherland
#24. When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
Kiefer Sutherland
#25. History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Anselm Kiefer
#26. Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.
Kiefer Sutherland
#27. Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.
Kiefer Sutherland
#28. Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.
Kiefer Sutherland
#29. I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.
Kiefer Sutherland
#30. I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
Anselm Kiefer
#31. When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
Anselm Kiefer
#32. The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer
#33. I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.
Kiefer Sutherland
#34. Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?
Kiefer Sutherland
#35. If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Anselm Kiefer
#36. Change was a scary concept. Whether you were ready for it or not, sometimes it crept up on you, ambushing without warning, and no matter if you wanted it or not, you had to figure out how to accept it and adapt to its insistent nature.
Erica Kiefer
#37. Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
Anselm Kiefer
#38. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#39. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#40. People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
Kiefer Sutherland
#41. When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.
Kiefer Sutherland
#42. Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Anselm Kiefer
#43. My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
Kiefer Sutherland
#44. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#45. Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Anselm Kiefer
#46. I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
Kiefer Sutherland
#47. Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
Anselm Kiefer
#48. I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.
Kiefer Sutherland
#49. I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
Kiefer Sutherland
#50. I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.
Kiefer Sutherland
#51. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#52. I can feel him step close, then his hands lay on my shoulders, and they burn in the most delicious way, only reminding me how dangerous Benjamin is to me, to my soul. How fast I would get lost in him, only to end up with a broken heart when I could not be the woman he expected me to be.
Nicole Kiefer
#53. The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.
Kiefer Sutherland
#54. I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
Kiefer Sutherland
#55. I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
Kiefer Sutherland
#56. My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
Kiefer Sutherland
#57. What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
Anselm Kiefer
#58. Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
Kiefer Sutherland
#59. I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
Anselm Kiefer
#60. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#61. You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
Kiefer Sutherland
#62. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#63. There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
Kiefer Sutherland
#64. I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
Kiefer Sutherland
#65. I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
Kiefer Sutherland
#66. When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
Kiefer Sutherland
#67. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#68. I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.
Kiefer Sutherland
#69. I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.
Kiefer Sutherland
#70. If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
Kiefer Sutherland
#71. History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Anselm Kiefer
#72. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#73. Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
Anselm Kiefer
#74. There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
Kiefer Sutherland
#75. The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
Kiefer Sutherland
#76. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.
Anselm Kiefer
#77. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#78. I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
Anselm Kiefer
#79. I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
Kiefer Sutherland
#80. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#81. My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
Kiefer Sutherland
#83. The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.
Anselm Kiefer
#84. When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
Anselm Kiefer
#85. I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
Anselm Kiefer
#86. If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.
Kiefer Sutherland
#87. 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.
Kiefer Sutherland
#88. I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
Anselm Kiefer
#89. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
Anselm Kiefer
#90. Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
Kiefer Sutherland
#91. There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
Kiefer Sutherland
#92. I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven,
Anselm Kiefer
#93. As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
Anselm Kiefer
#94. I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.
Kiefer Sutherland
#95. What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.
Kiefer Sutherland
#96. I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
Kiefer Sutherland
#97. I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.
Kiefer Sutherland
#98. I won't do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had. This is just me concerned over a friend I know for a long time and don't want to lose to a crazed lunatic.
Nicole Kiefer
#99. Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Anselm Kiefer
#100. You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.
Kiefer Sutherland
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