Bradley Whitford Quotes

• 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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• 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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• You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

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• With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

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• When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are.

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• Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

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• 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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• This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.

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• 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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• Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It’s surprising because he looks exhausted.

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• 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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• Love means never having to say you’re a zero.

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• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I’m working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

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• Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Action

• I was at the vice president’s Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

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• I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.

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• 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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• I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said “There’s no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there’s no military solution.”

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  Tags in Human Rights

• I have to think that I think it’s always been a horse race between this administration’s temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they’re coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren’t conservative. These guys are radicals.

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• 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. 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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Bradley Whitford (26)

Birth:	10th October, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Bradley Whitford was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He is an American film and television actor. He has played White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison. Whitford was nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards from 2001–2003 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role on The West Wing, winning the award in 2001. This role has also garnered him three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He graduated from Madison East High School in 1977.

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