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As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.

Bradley Whitford

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!
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House Nerd Revenge
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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Frustration Guy Interesting
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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Looks People Swimming
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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Bottom Expected More Say Work
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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Good Grow Up Kids Life
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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Enough Needs Real
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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Character Dirty Naughty
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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Long Talking Years
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
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Election Show Television Update
The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
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Children Invisible Wife
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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Administration Choices Ezcaerabated Kid Ticks
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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Character Decision Political
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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Graduation Hero Leader
As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
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Like You Swimming
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.
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Acting Coal Incredibly Sides
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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Affair Stupid Things

As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.

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