Martin Sheen quotes:

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  • It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  • I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

  • Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

  • Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

  • And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

  • I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

  • The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

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

  • We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  • My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

  • George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

  • War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

  • When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

  • I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

  • We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

  • I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

  • I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

  • Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

  • I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  • Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.

  • I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

  • This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

  • Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

  • I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

  • Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.

  • Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

  • Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  • That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.

  • On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

  • My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

  • I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

  • The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

  • I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  • There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  • I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

  • George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

  • Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

  • Find something in your life worth fighting for

  • Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

  • I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

  • I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

  • I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

  • I don't like scary films. I watched Psycho for the first time recently, alone in the house at night. That was a mistake. I had to call my friend to come over.

  • I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

  • I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

  • I love my country enough to suffer its wrath

  • I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

  • I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

  • I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

  • I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

  • If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

  • Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

  • No father could ever be prouder of his son. I hold Charlie's accomplishments dearer than my own. He has been through so much and overcome so much more. Even if he weren't my son he'd still be my best friend.

  • No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

  • Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.

  • Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

  • Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

  • People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

  • Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

  • The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?

  • There is no greater virtue than honesty.

  • We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

  • We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

  • We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

  • We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb)

  • We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

  • While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

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