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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

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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Enough Needs Real
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
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Government Money Politics Things
Infuse your life with action.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Action Infuse Wait
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Affair Stupid Things
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Election Show Television Update
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
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
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 WHITFORD

Character Dirty Naughty
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
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Graduation Hero Leader
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 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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Administration Choices Ezcaerabated Kid Ticks
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
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
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Good Grow Up Kids Life

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.

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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.

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