Martin Sheen Quotes

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

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• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• 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.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Game
  • Like
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Point
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Like
  • Athlete
  • Just

• Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Listening
  • Sister
  • Grateful

• 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.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Course
  • Directing

• It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part of my artwork is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Universe
  • Conflict
  • Heartbeat

• In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Teaching
  • Questions
  • Scripture

• We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • World