When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are
BRADLEY WHITFORDWith the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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Infuse your life with action.
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We’re telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
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Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
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Being an actor, you always feel like you’re swimming upstream. People are going, “No, they don’t like you. They don’t like the way you look. They don’t like how old you are.”
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You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don’t necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
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One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
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Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
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I was at the vice president’s Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
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The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
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In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that’s incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That’s the down side.
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I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin’s, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time.
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