Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Sheen
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
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.
Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
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 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 think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.
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.
War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
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.
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.
George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
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.
The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.
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.
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
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 never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!
I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
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.
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 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.
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
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.
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.
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.
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 are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.
If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.
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.
If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
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 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.
My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
Find something in your life worth fighting for
This supposed idyllic society we have is the most confused, warped, addicted society in the history of the world. We are addicted to power, we're addicted to our own image of ourselves, to violence, divorce, abortion, and sex.
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.
Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
There is no greater virtue than honesty.
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.
Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
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.
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.
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.
Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.
While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.
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