Michael Moriarty

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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.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Imagination
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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.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Legal
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When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Marriage
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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.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Legal
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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.
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Collection: Attitude
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Life is best when you are in love.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Best
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Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
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I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
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As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.
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I've had the most wonderful life.
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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.
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The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
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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.
- Michael Moriarty
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I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
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I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.
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Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
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Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
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I'm the American Winston Churchill.
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I love the theater of me.
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Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.
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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.
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Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
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Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
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I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
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My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Death
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Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Golden
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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.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Sports
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When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats 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.
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Collection: Goes On
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Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Law
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Film is something that came later into my life.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Film
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Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Years
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I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium weve got right now.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Attitude
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Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Death
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National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Health
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Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons 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.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Christian
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Ive had the most wonderful life.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Wonderful
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Interviews don't go to the core of my life.
- Michael Moriarty
Collection: Interviews