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I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go into the Barack Obama White House you will find six or seven people around him who are true believers.

Bradley Whitford

The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Asked Called Moment Power
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to… y’know, we’ll plan ideas and we’ll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Fighting Ideas Want
I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go into the Barack Obama White House you will find six or seven people around him who are true believers.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Dirty People Thinking
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Government Money Politics Things
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Administration Choices Ezcaerabated Kid Ticks
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Believe Faith Order
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?
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Character Dirty Naughty
As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Like You Swimming
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Attention Believe Opportunity
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Action Hope Waiting
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Enough Needs Real
Early on in my career I got a part in Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise. If I hadn’t done that I wouldn’t have met Tim Busfield and if I hadn’t met Tim Busfield, I wouldn’t have met Aaron Sorkin. So Nerds II took me straight to the White House!
BRADLEY WHITFORD

House Nerd Revenge
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Bob Fans Want
I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don’t think my kids are going to have that.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Good Grow Up Kids Life
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Hollywood Idiot Want
I identify with this guy’s frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it’s interesting.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Frustration Guy Interesting

I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go into the Barack Obama White House you will find six or seven people around him who are true believers.

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I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go into the Barack Obama White House you will find six or seven people around him who are true believers.

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