Donald Sutherland Quotes

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• Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

  Donald Sutherland

  Beautiful, Hopeful, Negative

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• It's the things we love most that destroy us.

  Donald Sutherland

  President Snow, Mockingjay

  "Fictional character: President Snow". "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - part 1", 2014.

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• One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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  Experts, Measurement, Opinion

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• Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

  Donald Sutherland

  Artistic, Casts, Wells

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.

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  Fun, Thinking, Games

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

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  Truth, Reality, People

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• I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

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  Dad, Ideas, Actors

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

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  Age, Roles, Way

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• If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing that it exists, and the only thing I know are jokes about it.

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  Believe, Heaven, Far Away

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• The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

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  Wife, Passionate, My Wife

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• I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

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  Jobs, Years, People

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• I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

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  Dirty, Play, Careers

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

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  Thinking, Acting, Cynicism

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• I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

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  Play, Guy, Able

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• I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.

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  Moving, Character, Opportunity

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

  Donald Sutherland

  Cameras

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• I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

  Donald Sutherland

  Directors, Enough, Forsaken

  Source: collider.com

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• But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

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  Scotch, Circles, Sitting

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

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  Stupid, Silly, Looks

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• What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

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  Hate, People, Growth

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• To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

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  Imagination, Catalyst

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

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  Wife, Location, Film

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• Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

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  Mistake, Years, Dumb

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I thought, "Oh, my god, that's what happens every time I talk with a journalist in the middle of shooting and I talk about my character. I describe him, I objectify him, and I kill him." So, I've never spoken with a journalist in the middle of a film. I don't do the EPK until the very end of a film. I can't talk about Kiefer's process, but what he brings to the table is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Character, Shooting

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

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  Fire, Trying, Too Much

  "Total recall". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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