Kiefer Sutherland

"His whole life is now concentrated on "24". Those bags you see under his eyes are not just for the character! He's always short on sleep, but he's extremely happy - and that's all that matters" - Shirley Douglas (mother)

"I have no objective viewpoint of his career, none at all. The series that he's doing (24) just takes your breath away. It really does. You're immediately sucked into the vortex of it. He did come to me one night when I was living in Los Angeles, this would've been a good 22 years ago. He stood at the end of the bed, and he said,

'Can I do my audition for you'? And I was, 'Oh God, puh-lease, oh, dear, Okay,' And he did it, and it was brilliant. I was so relieved. And he said, "Well, that's the way they want me to do it, can I show you how I want to do it?' - and so he did it again, completely different. And it was way better. My hair stood up. I don't even remember whether he got the part, but I knew he'd be OK. He was wonderful." Donald Sutherland (father)

"Two seconds before the camera rolls, the guy just clicks in faster then anyone I've ever seen. He fleshes things out brilliantly. And he's one of the best-listening actors I've worked with. He has the sweetest face I've ever seen - and a very old soul." - Meg Ryan (co-star, Promised Land)

"Kiefer encouraged me to shoot the rehearsal and he was right, he nailed things on the first take, that's just the kind of actor he is, very, very skilled on every level" - Gary Walkow (director, Beat)

"One of the things that makes it very easy to work with Kiefer is that his continuity is always perfect. He does every single take, every hand gesture, every turn of the head, happens at the exact same moment on every take. It's almost like a machine, you can actually cut from take to take, or from angle to angle without ever tripping over the fact that he's in a different spot. He has an amazing ability to repeat what he's doing and maintain a freshness about it." - Mark Malone (director, Dead Heat)

"Kiefer doesn't need to be a perfect hero. I admire that. He's not afraid of looking ugly, of looking tired, of being a villain. He's afraid of being mediocre. He doesn't need the approval of an audience the way some stars do" - Joel Schumacher

"Kiefer is very good at tapping into the darker side, he always has. He enjoys it. He's one of those actors that I appreciate in that he has no problem showing his ugly side" - Kevin Bacon (co-star, A Few Good Men, Flatliners)

"Kiefer is creepy on screen. You just close your eyes and listen to him talk, and you realize he's got the coolest voice. You don't get that staying home and going to church every Sunday." - D.J. Caruso (director, Taking Lives)

"I wasn't scared of anybody on the set. I was a kid from New York, coming out to Hollywood, nobody scared me. Kiefer Sutherland scared me! Kiefer Sutherland really made himself very menacing to the four of us. Looking back, he was doing it just to be in character to make sure we were scared of him. And man, it worked - I was scared of that dude." - Jerry O'Connell on Kiefer's portrayal of bully, Ace Merrill (Stand By Me)

"Kiefer plays a great heavy [in Stand By Me] and considering the fact that he is very soft spoken and he is kind of a sweet guy, a very intelligent person... it's fun for him to get to play those parts - Rob Reiner (director, Stand By Me)

"Kiefer's a scary guy. He has such intensity. He can convey a sense of menace without raising his voice or raising his hand and he seems, on screen, so much more physically threatening than he is in reality. I believe it comes through his eyes and the way he holds his body, the way he moves. He can just look at you and you want to back away. Then, when you hang out with him after a scene wraps he goes back to being the sweetest, nicest guy in the world so you know he has a real gift." - Bernie Goldmann (producer, Taking Lives)

"I was on a motorcycle holding a camera and so was the DP, grabbing as much as we could. When we finished Kiefer came over and said 'I think you missed two of my look-backs because there was a girl in a red sweater and a guy with a black jacket who got in the way.' Sure enough, when we watched the take there it was. I thought, 'here's a guy who's running as fast as he can through a crowd with a motorcycle chasing him and he knows exactly the moments that were blocked.' His expertise and skill as an actor is phenomenal." - D.J. Caruso (director, Taking Lives)

"Kiefer is amazing. He has so much talent and experience. The subtle changes he brought to each take made the evolution of his character even more organic and compelling. Working with Kiefer was the best experience I've had with an actor." - Alexandre Aja (director, Mirrors)

"The kid has a haunting quality to him. He read for the part and won it. I had misgivings that night, thinking maybe there's just this wonderful dark side to him and he won't be able to play the comic lines. So I brought him back in and gave him all the funny lines and he was delicious" - Donald Petrie on directing 16 year old Kiefer in his first film, The Bay Boy

"Always a gentleman. Always on time. Always knows his lines. Courteous to everybody on the crew. Meticulous. It's like he made a decision, and I've noticed this with some stars - some stars have and some stars haven't - he's made this decision: 'I'm gonna be a nice guy, I'm gonna treat people well.' And he does. He was mates with a number of locals and he'd go out with them and have a good time and he was really loved by our crew." - Vincent Ward (director, River Queen)

"What I love most is just the human being that he is. He has a well of wisdom when it comes to life and he had a lot of life lessons. He had a lot of things to tell me about the business, which I was like a sponge absorbing everything. He was just really inspirational to me for him to have been through everything he's been through in the business, all the way from being a child with his father to a hit show like 24. It's just an amazing career he's had and everything that he's been through personally, too. And yet he's still the kindest human being you'll ever meet" Eva Longoria (co-star, The Sentinel)

"I would love to bring Kiefer in as a stunt guy on my other productions. It is sometimes difficult with an actor like Kiefer because he is such a terrific athlete and he rides pretty close to the edge. My challenge with him was to watch him constantly because Kiefer has so much confidence in his own physical capabilities. I have to make sure he doesn't
put himself in a situation where he could possibly hurt himself - he would do every stunt on his own if he could." Chris Howell, Stunt Co-ordinator (Truth or Consequences)

"One of the biggest misconceptions about Kiefer is that he got anything easy in his life. He's done it on his own, every step of the way....He's Corleone loyal. We used to have a recurring fight about if one of us killed somebody, would we rat on each other? I'd say, 'That would depend on why you killed 'em.' And he would get really mad at me for that. In his code it wouldn't matter what the fuck you did; you would just never rat on your friend." - Jude Cole, best friend - singer/songwriter/producer

"Kiefer's a consummate professional. Since he was playing a `bull fighter,' rodeo clown in the film, he did this amazing thing during the Bull Riding finals in Las Vegas. He took the six or so professional bull fighters out to dinner, then took them to gambling tables, gave them a thousand bucks each. I know that Kiefer lost money making this film - he did it purely out of respect and love for these guys... Most people don't know that Kiefer has cowboy in his blood - after he did a cowboy

flick with Woody Harrelson, he actually left Hollywood, bought a huge ranch up in central California, and became a cattle rancher. Just stepped out of the limelight, and while he was at it, decided to take up professional cattle roping. Well, I'll be damned if he didn't become the champion at that sport - he and his partner won the championship the year that he competed, he can rope as good as Will Rogers." - Richard Martini (Second Unit Director, Cowboy Up)

He comes from a performer's standpoint. He is constantly aware of the performer's process as well as the performer's needs within the scene. He trusts your expressive skills which is a very rare quality. Directors who appreciate what's going on in the mind of the actor seem to be the ones I respond to best. Kiefer has that. He is part good old boy and part nurturing mother hen. That's a pretty inspiring combination." actress, Grace Phillips on Kiefer the Director (Truth or Consequences, N.M.)

"Kiefer directs very differently. I think he does it very well. That film works really well for me. He understands acting obviously, and I'm amazed he was able to act and direct at the same time. Because he plays a pretty dark character and he finished ahead of schedule when we only had five weeks anyway" - Forest Whitaker (Last Light)

"Kiefer is a wonderful man and a fabulous character actor and that has been his strong point. Kiefer’s talent and career was not based on being the pretty young thing of the month. Even though Kiefer was amazingly good looking and still is a very good looking man, but when he was 18 and we did Lost Boys he was certainly one of the beautiful young boys around. He always had this much older soul in him and was capable of doing character roles even then. Sometimes people like Kiefer, as they get older they go through a cycle were they are cold for a while but then people discover their talents again and that's what has happened with his series, 24. Everybody

woke up and said,‘Oh yeah, Kiefer Sutherland

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is a really great actor.’ I’ve done four movies with him, since he was 18, Phone Booth being the latest, and he’s one of the best actors of his age." - Joel Schumacher (director)

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