Quotes by Kiefer Sutherland

“If youre not convincing, we both die.”

“Damn it, Nina!”

“There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.”

“Its been an honor working with you, Mr. President.”

“Damn it, Audrey!”

“I dont have to follow your orders. I dont work here anymore.”

“I turned to the only guy I could trust, Tony.”

“Im federal agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.”

“Youre going to tell me what I want to know. Its just a question of how much you want it to hurt.”

“I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.”

“This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because hes presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- dont exist now. And hes mad.”

“Carlos [ Bernard , Tony] is your guy. He had two police officers arrest Mia Kirshner [then playing Mandy] for allegedly smoking marijuana outside her dressing room. And as they went to take her away, Carlos got into a fight with the officers about [how they really should be] protecting the city.”

“Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.”

“The graphics are the really freaky thing. I have two stepsons who are really good at the games, and they saw the likenesses. They had a gleam in their eyes, and I could see that the reason they liked it was because they could play to a point and then just stop, and I would get wasted. I think theres a certain amount of joy in, like, Lets watch him get shot again! Do it again! You can make him really get riddled.”

“I commend Julia for seeing how young and silly we were, even at the last minute, even as painful and as difficult as it was. Thank God she saw it.”

“For me to have an opportunity to work with someone like that, its a fantastic learning experience.”

“The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something thats well thought-out and miraculous.”

“Im committed to the show as long as I feel that were moving forward. And Im committed to the show as long as an audience will allow me to do it. I think theyll be very clear in the end, as will you all, when (the show) is no longer effective.”

“I think the show is working. I think the character is growing on many levels. I think one thing that were all discovering is that every season has impacted another, and the character has grown, and the character is allowed to carry with him what he has suffered the year before.”

There are a lot of movies Id like to throw away. Thats 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 dont work.