Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor whose film career spans 50 years...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 July 1935
CitySaint John, Canada
CountryCanada
wife location film
I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
son wife three
I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
dirty play careers
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
our-generation generations aging
He doesn't translate well into our generation.
two next-day trying
When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them the next day. All directors look at the rushes, except for Fellini. I asked him why he didn't and said, "Because it interrupts my fantasy." What he was trying to say was that he had a three-dimensional, vibrant, living, volatile fantasy going on in his head, and when he looked at rushes, they were two-dimensional and they killed it.
circles scotch sitting
But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
lying ambition iraq
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
wife passionate my-wife
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
hate people growth
What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.
mistake years dumb
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
son thinking different
I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.
play guy able
I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.
eye thinking blood
When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.
character two dna
You're always working in the movie. Never was I me, and never have I been me, nor was he him. We were the two characters. But the character that I was playing was informed by my DNA, looking at him informed by his.