Martin Sheen Quotes

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• We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

  Martin Sheen

  Care, Great Things, All Things

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• And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

  Martin Sheen

  Self, World Suffering, People

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• Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

  Martin Sheen

  Money, Needs, Tomorrow

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• Find something in your life worth fighting for

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Worth Fighting For

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• There is no greater virtue than honesty.

  Martin Sheen

  Honesty, Virtue, Greater

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

  Martin Sheen

  Party, Political, Environmental

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

  Martin Sheen

  Happiness, Real, Helping Others

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• If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

  Martin Sheen

  Journey, Growth, Finding Yourself

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• The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Men, Heaven

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• 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

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• Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.

  Martin Sheen

  Done, Fanatics

  "The Completely Outrageous Passion of Martin Sheen" by Nancy Perry Graham, "AARP The Magazine", July & August 2008.

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• People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

  Martin Sheen

  Perseverance, Pain, People

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• Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

  Martin Sheen

  Golf, Play

  Interview by David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• 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

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• I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, Way

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• 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

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• While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

  Martin Sheen

  Acting, Alive, Activism

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• Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

  Martin Sheen

  Bucks, Buying, Easy

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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

  Martin Sheen

  Government, Promise, Honest

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  Martin Sheen

  Catholic, Enemy, Church

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• Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

  Martin Sheen

  Pain, Emotional, Common Humanity

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• 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

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• 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

  Time, Winning, Justice

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

  Martin Sheen

  Faith, Thinking, Catholic

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• I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

  Martin Sheen

  Way, Because I Can, Knows

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