Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

If 'Scandal' were to run for the rest of my career and prevent me from doing anything else, I would sign that contract this moment.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.

Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure.

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I've worked for there, and that was a great experience.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

We shoot 'Hustle' for 12 to 16 weeks, so that's how long I'm here each year. I've always loved London. I lived here for three years back in the Seventies, when I did a TV series, 'The Protectors,' for Lew Grade.

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.