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Martin Sheen Biography

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor of Spanish/Irish descent who first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999-2006).

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

Journey, Growth, Finding Yourself, Honest, God

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.

Military, Understanding, Vision, Bush, Administration

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.

Confused, Divorce, Image, Sex, World

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

Country, Enough, Love, Suffering, Wrath

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.

Equal, Games, Justice, Know, Level, Long

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.

Believe, Enough, Long, Optimistic, See

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

Recovery, Accomplishment, Addiction, Greatest, Fallen, Life

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

Believe, Goodness, Jesus, Nonviolent, Present

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.

Become, Humanity, Responsibility, Salvation, World

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

Reality, Show, Universe, West, Wings

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.

Military, Traitor, Accused, Truth, Further

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.

Inspirational, Kids, Parent, Grace, Like, Nurtured

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

Done, Fanatics, Unless, Fanatic, Gets

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

America, Enough, Given, People, Thinking, World

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.

Eight, Golf, Hit, People, Say

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

Citizen, House, Office, President, States

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.

Cast, Character, Focus, Peripheral, President, Wing

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

Fight, Fighting, Needs, Win, Winning

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.

House, President, Way, White

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.

Fighting, Cost, Left, Faith, Fight

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