Quotes from Michael Moriarty


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


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.


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.


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'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.


I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.


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.


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.


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.


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


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


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


Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.


I've had the most wonderful life.


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


I love the theater of me.


I'm the American Winston Churchill.


I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.


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.