Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriartyis an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and a jazz musician. He played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons of Law & Order. He is also known for his roles in films such as Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Troll and Shiloh...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth5 April 1941
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
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I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now.
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The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
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I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.
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Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
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I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.
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Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
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When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's 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.'
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Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
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My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
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I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's 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.
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Interviews don't go to the core of my life,
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As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.