Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor whose film career spans 50 years...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 July 1935
CitySaint John, Canada
CountryCanada
mistake years dumb
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
lying ambition iraq
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
fire trying too-much
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
silly littles looks
I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
hate people growth
What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.
imagination catalyst
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
wife passionate my-wife
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
country government cost
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
eye thinking blood
When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.
wife location film
I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
dirty play careers
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
jobs years people
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
son thinking different
I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.
artistic wells casts
Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!