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"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
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"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
Father
"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press."
People
"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."
Work
"There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom."
Mercy
"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"
Life
"One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge."
Thought
"My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level."
Change
"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 don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
Performance
"I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character."
Work
"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."
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