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 WHITFORDYou don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
More Bradley Whitford Quotes
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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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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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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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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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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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I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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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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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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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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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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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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As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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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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You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
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