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 WHITFORDI want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
More Bradley Whitford Quotes
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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 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 invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
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You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
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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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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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Take action. Every story you’ve ever connected with, every leader you’ve ever admired, every puny little thing that you’ve ever accomplished is the result of taking action.
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When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are
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As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
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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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You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
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Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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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.
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I did not always agree, personally, on the positions that Bartlet, character from the West Wing, took and I argued against them on many occasions. But Aaron Sorkin said, “Martin, that’s you, that’s not Barlet.
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