Martin Sheen Quotes

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.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

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.

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

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

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.

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

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

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

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 have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

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

I don't like scary films. I watched Psycho for the first time recently, alone in the house at night. That was a mistake. I had to call my friend to come over.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

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

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

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

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

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

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

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

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.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

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

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.