Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriartyis an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and a jazz musician. He played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons of Law & Order. He is also known for his roles in films such as Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Troll and Shiloh...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth5 April 1941
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.
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Interviews don't go to the core of my life,
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I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.'
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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.
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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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Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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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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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.
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I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.