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 SheenTheres 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 SheenI think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
Martin SheenWe 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 SheenMy first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
Martin SheenI don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.
Martin Sheen