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.

Michael Moriarty

Life is best when you are in love.

Michael Moriarty

The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

Michael Moriarty

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

Michael Moriarty

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.

Michael Moriarty

I've had the most wonderful life.

Michael Moriarty

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Michael Moriarty

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

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

Michael Moriarty

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.'

Michael Moriarty

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

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

Michael Moriarty

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

Michael Moriarty

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.

Michael Moriarty

I love the theater of me.

Michael Moriarty

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

Michael Moriarty

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

Michael Moriarty

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

Michael Moriarty

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

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.

Michael Moriarty

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

Michael Moriarty