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 More Quotes by Martin Sheen More Quotes From Martin Sheen 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. Martin Sheen world-sufferingselfpeople Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow. Martin Sheen moneytomorrowneeds We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care. Martin Sheen great-thingscareall-things Find something in your life worth fighting for Martin Sheen worth-fighting-forfighting 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. Martin Sheen environmentalpoliticalparty 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. Martin Sheen common-humanityemotionalpain There is no greater virtue than honesty. Martin Sheen virtuegreaterhonesty 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. Martin Sheen realhelping-othershappiness Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic. Martin Sheen fanaticsdone 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. Martin Sheen leftcostfighting People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain. Martin Sheen perseverancepainpeople If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God. Martin Sheen finding-yourselfgrowthjourney 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. Martin Sheen faithfulissuessuccessful While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive. Martin Sheen activismaliveacting 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 presidentwhitehouse Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself. Martin Sheen playgolf 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. Martin Sheen honestgovernmentpromise 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. Martin Sheen divorceconfusedsex 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 responsibilityhumanityworld 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 funeralmenwar
