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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Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.
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Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
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I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.
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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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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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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.