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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.

Bradley Whitford

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
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
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Bob Fans Want
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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Attention Believe Opportunity
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
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Election Show Television Update
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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Believe Faith Order
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
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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Believe Out Speaks Want
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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Asked Called Moment Power
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
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
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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Against Character Feeling Personal Sentiment
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
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
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything
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Hollywood Idiot Want
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
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Giving Issues Talking
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
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Government Money Politics Things

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