Words matter. These are the best Michael Moriarty Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.
Life is best when you are in love.
Everybody knows my life – it’s an open book.
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
Obama’s IRS is not the IRS I’ve ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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.
I love the theater of me.
I’ve had the most wonderful life.
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
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.
Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.
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.
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.
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what’s causing violence in America – the damn drug laws.
Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She’s a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
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.
When I saw Paul Scofield do ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost at Stratford,’ that’s 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.’
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
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.
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.
I’m the American Winston Churchill.
Interviews don’t go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life – it’s an open book.
My musical influences are from the ’50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
