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"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."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
Mother

"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'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."
Love

"When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things."
Age

"The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous."
Thought

"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

"I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy."
Men

"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
Father

"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
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