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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When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!
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The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.
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The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
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I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
