Words matter. These are the best Bradley Whitford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
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.
Juilliard was four years, and I called it ‘med school with guaranteed unemployment at the end.’ And it ends: you’re getting ready to go out and be an actor, and… nothing.
Love means never having to say you’re a zero.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It’s surprising because he looks exhausted.
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.
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?
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said ‘There’s no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there’s no military solution.’
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
I was at the vice president’s Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are.
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan.
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I’m working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he’s a good guy.
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
An experience like ‘The West Wing’ is what I would imagine – even though I’ve never done it – that surfing feels like. It’s, like, ‘Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all the anxiety!’
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 have to think that I think it’s always been a horse race between this administration’s temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they’re coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren’t conservative. These guys are radicals.
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
