Quotes from Martin Sheen

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

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.

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

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.

No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

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

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

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

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.

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

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

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 never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!