Latest Martin Sheen Quotes from Interviews

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• I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, Leader, Catholic

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was a celebrity. This is not what I do for a living - politics. I play politicians, as well as working class or clergy or whatever, and you mustn't be confused by what you're seeing on television because that's not who I am. So I always ended it.

  Martin Sheen

  Confused, Politician, Working Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

• One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was wearing, a card of the speechwriter, Toby. He had given that coat to the Goodwill and this guy had ended up wearing it, died in it and Toby went to his funeral. He turned out to be a Korean war veteran. It was our first Christmas episode and that was a true story - a member of the staff had done exactly that. So many of these stories were far better than any fiction.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Men, Funeral

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

  Martin Sheen

  Writing, Language

• I was the last one to join the cast of the west Wing and when I started it was just a peripheral character - the focus was to be on the staff, not the First Family. When I did the pilot, my contract was for just three years and it was confined to maybe three or four episodes every season. The only restraint I had was that I could not play another President while the show was on the air. So, I kind of backed into one of the great events of my life and certainly my career.

  Martin Sheen

  Character, Focus, President

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.

  Martin Sheen

  Successful, Issues, Faithful

  Source: progressive.org

• I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

  Martin Sheen

  Winning, Justice, Trying

  Source: progressive.org

• I don't think abortion is a good idea. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: progressive.org

• You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch. You have no excuse if you are a conservative not to be concerned about the environment. You are equally responsible.

  Martin Sheen

  Responsibility, Watches, Culture

  Source: progressive.org

• This supposed idyllic society we have is the most confused, warped, addicted society in the history of the world. We are addicted to power, we're addicted to our own image of ourselves, to violence, divorce, abortion, and sex.

  Martin Sheen

  Sex, Confused, Divorce

  Source: progressive.org

• Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

  Martin Sheen

  Games, Justice, Long

  Source: progressive.org

• I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. The leaders are the ones who make the decisions. The soldiers do not have the choice. I support the soldiers as human beings.

  Martin Sheen

  Military, Choices, Support

  Source: progressive.org

• I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

  Martin Sheen

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.lasplash.com

• The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

  Martin Sheen

  Children, Careers, My Children

  Source: www.lasplash.com

• I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.

  Martin Sheen

  Memories, Makeup, People

  Source: www.lasplash.com

• We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Cost, Left

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

  Martin Sheen

  Believe, Optimistic, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org