You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
BRADLEY WHITFORDThe 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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
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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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The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
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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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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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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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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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As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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