I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
Bradley WhitfordInfuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
Bradley WhitfordYou don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
Bradley WhitfordYou need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
Bradley WhitfordEarly on in my career I got a part in Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise. If I hadn't done that I wouldn't have met Tim Busfield and if I hadn't met Tim Busfield, I wouldn't have met Aaron Sorkin. So Nerds II took me straight to the White House!
Bradley WhitfordWe're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
Bradley WhitfordI have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
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