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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Way, Because I Can, Knows

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

  Martin Sheen

  Recovery, Accomplishment, Addiction

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• I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  Martin Sheen

  Office, House, President

  "Commentary A Celebrity, but First a Citizen". articles.latimes.com. March 17, 2003.

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  White, House, President

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• Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

  Martin Sheen

  Games, Justice, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, America, People

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Inspirational, Kids, Parent

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• I am not a politician or a public servant. 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Winning, Justice, Trying

  Source: progressive.org

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• One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was wearing, a card of the speechwriter, Toby. He had given that coat to the Goodwill and this guy had ended up wearing it, died in it and Toby went to his funeral. He turned out to be a Korean war veteran. It was our first Christmas episode and that was a true story - a member of the staff had done exactly that. So many of these stories were far better than any fiction.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Men, Funeral

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

  Martin Sheen

  Country, Wrath, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Vegetables, People, Trying

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Wings, West

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• I was the last one to join the cast of the west Wing and when I started it was just a peripheral character - the focus was to be on the staff, not the First Family. When I did the pilot, my contract was for just three years and it was confined to maybe three or four episodes every season. The only restraint I had was that I could not play another President while the show was on the air. So, I kind of backed into one of the great events of my life and certainly my career.

  Martin Sheen

  Character, Focus, President

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

  Martin Sheen

  Children, Careers, My Children

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, President, Clinton

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Father, Son, Accomplishment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Martin Sheen

  Generations, Bombs, Should

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Judging, Abortion

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.

  Martin Sheen

  Memories, Makeup, People

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Winning, Needs

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Jesus, Thinking, Taught Us

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

  Martin Sheen

  Jesus, Believe, Goodness

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• 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. You have no excuse if you are a conservative not to be concerned about the environment. You are equally responsible.

  Martin Sheen

  Responsibility, Watches, Culture

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Responsibility, Humanity, World

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• I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, Leader, Catholic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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