Bradley Whitford Quotes

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?

At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

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.

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

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.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

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.

Infuse your life with action.

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

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.

People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!

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

Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.

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

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

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

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

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

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

As an actor you always feel like you're swimming upstream.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

I can't believe George Bush might be president.