You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
BRADLEY WHITFORDI 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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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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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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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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Infuse your life with action.
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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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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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