Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American actor who first became known for his roles in the films, The Subject Was Rosesand Badlands, and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth3 August 1940
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
fighting cost left
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 men heaven
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?
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Find something in your life worth fighting for
fighting winning needs
Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!
war fighting thinking
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. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.
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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.
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We in the cast knew we had something special in this series. The big question was whether or not it would work on network television. There were no car chases or special effects. It was about politics. The action was in the word.
simply time war
War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
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George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.
age forward looking
I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!
pacifist
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.
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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.
highest pleasure reflects truly
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.