When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are
BRADLEY WHITFORDBeing 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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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.
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I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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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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This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
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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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The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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