When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are
BRADLEY WHITFORDThe 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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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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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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As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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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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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 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 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 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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You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
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Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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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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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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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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