Michael Moriarty Quotes

• Life is best when you are in love.

  Michael Moriarty

  Inspirational, Life, Life Is

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• Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

  Michael Moriarty

  Dream, American Dream, Nations

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• I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

  Michael Moriarty

  Death, Dying, Live It Up

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• Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

  Michael Moriarty

  Golden, Court, Right To Life

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• Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

  Michael Moriarty

  Sports, Art, Drinking

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• When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats 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.

  Michael Moriarty

  Goes On, Levels, Want

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• If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

  Michael Moriarty

  Giving, Imagination, Want

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• Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

  Michael Moriarty

  Law, America, Drug

  "Soundbite: Dammit Janet". Interview with Adrienne Redd, reason.com. May 1997.

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• Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

  Michael Moriarty

  Kind, Made

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• Film is something that came later into my life.

  Michael Moriarty

  Film

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• The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

  Michael Moriarty

  Law, Should, Attorney

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• Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

  Michael Moriarty

  Years, Citizens, Irs

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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.

  Michael Moriarty

  Attitude, Hate, People

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• Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

  Michael Moriarty

  Death, People, Dying

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• I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

  Michael Moriarty

  Privileged

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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.

  Michael Moriarty

  Intellectual, Mind, Different

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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.

  Michael Moriarty

  Water, Political, Persons

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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.

  Michael Moriarty

  Honesty, Language, Clarity

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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.'

  Michael Moriarty

  Health, Law, United States

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• As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

  Michael Moriarty

  Jobs, Airports, Long

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• Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

  Michael Moriarty

  Christian, Islamic, Passion

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• I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

  Michael Moriarty

  Thinking, Rights, Government

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• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

  Michael Moriarty

  Acting, Calling, Kind

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• Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

  Michael Moriarty

  Book, Open Book, Knows

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• Ive had the most wonderful life.

  Michael Moriarty

  Wonderful, Wonderful Life

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