With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORDTake 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.
More Bradley Whitford Quotes
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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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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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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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Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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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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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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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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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 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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Infuse your life with action.
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I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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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.
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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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