Martin Sheen Quotes (52 Quotes)

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.

Im just not qualified. Youre mistaking celebrity for credibility.

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

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

There were no car chases or fires or special effects. The action was in the word ... The only real doubt we had was whether or not it would work on network television.

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.

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

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.

And Jesus in all of his teaching was very clear about the heart of the law, not the letter. And I think we have to remember that we are human first.

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

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

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.

We in the cast knew we had something special in this series. The big question was whether or not it would work on network television. There were no car chases or special effects. It was about politics. The action was in the word.

You may have mistaken this for your meeting of the ignorant tight-asses club but in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.

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

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

My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway, Ireland, where my late mother came from and where I'm also a citizen.

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

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

This is really the fundamental question for all of us. How do you make a difference and what difference does it make This has to be highly personal. The only thing you can change is you.

I do it 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.

It's a little strange being singled out. I'm one of about a dozen people in an ensemble cast and they're all wonderful.

No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

We've maintained a core of viewers who have been with us from the start. A core is what most politicians depend on for their success, so we sort of fell into that.

I think that basically we're putting a heart and a humanity into hard-core politics. We're saying that you can be a human being and be a public servant. You can be honest and you can be forthright, you can have credibility and you can be heartfelt.

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.

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

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

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.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

All of his movies had a profound effect on my life, in my work and all of my generation, ... He transcended cinema acting. It was no longer acting, it was human behavior.

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.

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.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.