57 Quotes by Michael Moriarty

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

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

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

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.

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.

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.

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

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.

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.