Martin Sheen Quotes
We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
Quotes to Explore
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
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Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.
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We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
