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“You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.”
― Martin Sheen

“We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“…there was a saying that Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted, James Dean changed the way people lived. I believe that.”
― Martin Sheen, The Story of the Other Wise Man

“We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving. Without love we build dungeons in our hearts and fill them with our perceived enemies. We believe they deserve to be there for the harm they've caused us. But by imprisoning them we're destroying our own spirits. When our dungeons are overflowing with these prisoners we refuse to set free, we become slaves to our self-righteousness, our anger, resentments, and self-loathing, which we let multiply until we wind up imprisoned on our own death row.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio”
― Martin Sheen

“We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving. Without love, we build dungeons in our hearts and fill them with our perceived enemies.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“What's next?”
― Martin Sheen

“Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”
― Martin Sheen