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Bradley Whitford

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

Bob Fans 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
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?
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Character Dirty Naughty
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.
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Frustration Guy Interesting
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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Looks People Swimming
As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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Like You Swimming
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
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
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!
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House Nerd Revenge
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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Government Money Politics Things
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
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
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
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
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Election Show Television Update
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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Affair Stupid Things
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

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