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You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

Bradley Whitford

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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Always Play Roles Versions
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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Enough Needs Real
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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Action Hope Waiting
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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Attention Believe Opportunity
As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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Like You Swimming
The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
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Children Invisible Wife
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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Affair Stupid Things
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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Dirty People Thinking
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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Believe Out Speaks Want
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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Bob Fans Want
It’s a very political decision he has to make.” I found from the very beginning that when I infused my own personal feelings about an issue it went against the grain of the character.
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Against Character Feeling Personal Sentiment
We make these people climb this filthy rope and then we stand at the bottom and say, “Hey, your hands are dirty!” To show heroic, progressive, democratic politics at work was more than I ever expected.
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Bottom Expected More Say Work
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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Character Decision Political
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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Giving Issues Talking
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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Believe Faith Order
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
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Hollywood Idiot Want

You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

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