Michael Moriarty Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

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.

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

the great critic is one who deepens our experience of the great text.

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.'

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.

Life is best when you are in love.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I love the theater of me.

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

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

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

I've had the most wonderful life.

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

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