Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.

I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

I really want to do a film with my uncle and my cousins. I'm sure it will be really interesting to work with them.

My father knows more about sports than any human being out there. He relaxes. The ribbing that we give each at the Christmas holidays is incredible. He's much more of an ordinary American and a proper American than a lot people would probably ever believe.

I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

The first day working with my father was nerve wracking. I was terrified that I would embarrass him or he would embarrass me and it was probably one of the more tortuous days of my life. After the first day was under our belt, it was a great opportunity and I'll always look back on that experience fondly.

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to jump into the next one. How I feel about it is that I learned a lot, so I'm grateful that I learned so much, at such a young age, rather than in my more adult professional career.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.