Martin Sheen famous quotes

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

#Self #People #Focus

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

#Money #Needs #Tomorrow

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

#Real #Helping Others #Winning

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

#Golf #Play

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

#Care #Great Things

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

#Perseverance #Pain #People

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

#Journey #Finding Yourself #Growth

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
-- Martin Sheen

#Vegetables #People #Trying

There is no greater virtue than honesty.
-- Martin Sheen

#Honesty #Virtue

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath
-- Martin Sheen

#Country #Wrath #Suffering

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

#Done

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Golf #Eight #People

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

#Father #Get Over

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Winning #Justice #Trying

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.
-- Martin Sheen

#Gratitude #Grace #Matter

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Way #Because I Can

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
-- Martin Sheen

#Golf #Boys #Years

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Reality #Judging #Abortion

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Inspirational #Kids #Parent

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Thinking #Catholic #Church

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”?
-- Martin Sheen

#Fighting #Men #Heaven

Find something in your life worth fighting for
-- Martin Sheen

#Fighting #Worth Fighting For

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

#Acting #Alive #Activism

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

#Party #Political #Environmental

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

#Bucks #Buying #Easy

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

#Thinking #Way

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

#Expression #Crowds #Comic

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

#White #House #President

Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.
-- Martin Sheen

#New York #School #Years

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Catholic #Enemy #Church

Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.
-- Martin Sheen

#Dream #Country #Children

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

#Bombs #Generations #Should

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

#Mother #Believe #Catholic

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

#Responsibility #Humanity #World

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#War #Fighting #Thinking

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

#Pain #Emotional #People

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

#Fighting #Winning #Needs

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Honesty #Play #Way

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
-- Martin Sheen

#Office #President #Citizens

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

#Thinking #America #People

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Military #Traitor #Accused

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

#Government #Promise #Honestly

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

#Jesus #Believe #Goodness

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

#Reality #Wings #Keys

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

#Reality #Wings #West

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

#Recovery #Accomplishment #Addiction

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

#Justice #Firsts #Social

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.
-- Martin Sheen

#Military #Understanding #Vision