Michael Moriarty Quotes

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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.
• Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.
• Life is best when you are in love.
• Interviews don't go to the core of my life,
• I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
• As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.
• 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…
• When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
• 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…
• Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
• 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…
• 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…
• Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.
• Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People…
• I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
• 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…
• 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…
• The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
• 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…
• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

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