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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.”

Bradley Whitford

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Attention Believe Opportunity
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Against Character Feeling Personal Sentiment
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
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Hollywood Idiot Want
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Character Decision Political
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Action Hope Waiting
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 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
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Election Show Television Update
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Affair Stupid Things
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
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
BRADLEY WHITFORD

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
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.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Acting Coal Incredibly Sides
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
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

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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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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