Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, producer, director, and singer-songwriter. He has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox series 24. He also starred as Martin Bohm in the Fox drama Touch and provided the facial motion capture and English voices of Big Boss and Venom Snake in the video games Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth21 December 1966
CityLondon, England
CountryCanada
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.
I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.
What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.
I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.