A biography for Martin Sheenhasn’t been written yet.
“I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!”
“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.”
“We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.”
“Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.”
“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.”
“We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.”
“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.”
“I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.”
“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.”
“The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.”
“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.”
“Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.”
“My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.”