I turned to the only guy I could trust, Tony.

I`m federal agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.

I don`t have to follow your orders. I don`t work here anymore.

If you`re not convincing, we both die.

You`re going to tell me what I want to know. It`s just a question of how much you want it to hurt.

Damn it, Nina!

It`s been an honor working with you, Mr. President.

Damn it, Audrey!

There`s a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

When I wasn`t the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don`t have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that`s well thought-out and miraculous.

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn`t think I could do anything wrong.

I didn`t realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I couldn`t see my father`s films because they were restricted and we didn`t have videos or DVDs back then.

[Talking about his father, actor Donald Sutherland, being a fan of his TV series "24"]: I remember last year we were having dinner and I made the mistake of saying I had to go home soon because we`re shooting x, y and z. And he got cross with me, because I had told him what I was shooting, just not thinking about it, and obviously gave away a piece of the plot.

My old man started to watch 24 in France when he was on location - it didn`t have any commercials over there. Then he came to the States and he hated the commercials. Then he went back to France and he missed the commercials, because it gave him time to breathe. I always found that funny.

When asked what attracted him to film acting: "I got into it for the girls."

"My mind went totally blank and my body went numb. It was a very surreal moment....It was a great night. I admit I felt really cocky for about 24 hours, and then I had to go back to work" - on winning the 2001 Best Actor Golden Globe

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I`ve always done that with the press.

"It`s funny because I`m strongly opposed to the death penalty, and I don`t believe in `acceptable losses`. It`s complicated for me to play this character, because, unlike a film, I don`t know the end but I want a situation to arise within the show where he`s actually confronted with a lot of the things he`s done" - on Bauer`s trigger-happy nature

I think the most attractive thing (in a woman) is a sense of humor. If someone can make you laugh, you`ve gotten a lot out of the way

I got really lucky in that my dad stopped working just as I started. He took a few years off, not on purpose, but he has three sons with his wife of 30 years and he wanted to be involved with them. As much as I missed him being around when I was growing up, I think he missed us too and he wasn`t going to let that happen again. So it wasn`t until much later that people started making comparisons. When I started, with films like The Bay Boy and Stand by Me, I look back on those interviews and I`m amazed; there`s no mention of my father, it`s not even "son of Donald Sutherland". I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me. It`s amazing that I was stupid enough to try it - we`re talking about one of the most prolific actors in film history - but my parents were very gracious about making me feel like I at least had a shot at making my own path.

You know, Gauguin is one of my favorite painters, not because I think he was a great painter but because he was a great artist, his passion and belief in what he was doing; he gave up everything to follow his passion. I have so much respect for that because I don`t have that kind of courage.

You can`t ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you`re going to live your life like I have,` he says. `I`ve done enough stupid things that I might as well walk up to them and say, "Here, if I were you, I`d write it like this ..." In all fairness, the press has been pretty nice to me; even in having a go at me, it`s done with a kind of humor. Only once or twice have I seen something that made me think, wow, that person really doesn`t like me - where it`s been malicious as opposed to "what an idiot".

If the acting thing hadn`t worked out for me, I`d be laying phone cable in northern Ontario.

Do I think it`s important to the show ("24" (2001)) that Jack eventually dies and does so when you least expect it? Yeah. It will be very obvious when people start going, `Oh, please. How many bad days can one guy have?`

"You can`t do all these interviews about how wonderful you both are and then when it falls apart six days before your wedding not expect people to have a shot at you. I know Julia and I unwittingly asked for it." (about the much-hyped broken engagement to Julia Roberts)

On his 1990s career: "You could say I was not on everybody`s first list to do the bigger films. Luckily other opportunities have come along."

There are two kinds of event in rodeo and bull riding`s one of the roughstock events. I was into immobilising cows myself.

When you`re a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I`m not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

"Now I know how Charlie (Sheen) feels, I`ve lost all feeling in my lower half." (his reaction to winning the Golden Globe Award!)