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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

Bradley Whitford

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

Bob Fans Want
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
The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Children Invisible Wife
When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Always Play Roles Versions
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.”
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Looks People Swimming
You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Believe Out Speaks Want
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Hollywood Idiot Want
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
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Giving Issues Talking
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Long Talking Years
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
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Christmas Emotional Parties
Infuse your life with action.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Action Infuse Wait
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Government Money Politics Things
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Character Decision Political

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