You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORDYou don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORDIt’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 WHITFORDInfuse your life with action.
BRADLEY WHITFORDOnly two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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.
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.”
BRADLEY WHITFORDAs an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
BRADLEY WHITFORDWith the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORDThe invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
BRADLEY WHITFORDYou don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
BRADLEY WHITFORDThe 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.
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?
BRADLEY WHITFORDI 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 WHITFORDYou 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 WHITFORDWhen you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are
BRADLEY WHITFORDWe 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