Michael Moriarty Quotes

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

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 very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

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.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

Film is something that came later into my life.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life.

Life is best when you are in love.

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

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.

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.

Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

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.

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.'

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.

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

Ive had the most wonderful life.

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.

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.

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

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.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.