67+ Martin Sheen Quotes On Education, Bible And Patience

Martin Sheen is an American actor who has had a long and successful career. He is best known for his role as President Josiah Bartlet on the television series The West Wing, as well as for his roles in films such as Apocalypse Now and The Departed. He is the father of actors Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Martin Sheen on education, love, bible.

Top 10 Martin Sheen Quotes

1. 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.
2. Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.
3. 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.
4. Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
5. I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
6. While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
10. My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

Martin Sheen Short Quotes

• My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
• Find something in your life worth fighting for
• We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)
• If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
• I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
• Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
• Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!
• I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
• I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.
• There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Martin Sheen Quotes About President

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century. — Martin Sheen

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader. — Martin Sheen

I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States. — Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen Quotes About Work

If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is. — Martin Sheen

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't. — Martin Sheen

I was a celebrity. This is not what I do for a living - politics. I play politicians, as well as working class or clergy or whatever, and you mustn't be confused by what you're seeing on television because that's not who I am. So I always ended it. — Martin Sheen

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

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression. — Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am not a politician or a public servant. 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

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

I don't think abortion is a good idea. 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

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

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

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. — Martin Sheen

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

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes! — Martin Sheen

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

Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement. — Martin Sheen

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. The leaders are the ones who make the decisions. The soldiers do not have the choice. I support the soldiers as human beings. — Martin Sheen

I 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

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

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value. — Martin Sheen

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

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

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that. — Martin Sheen

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

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

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

No father could ever be prouder of his son. I hold Charlie's accomplishments dearer than my own. He has been through so much and overcome so much more. Even if he weren't my son he'd still be my best friend. — Martin Sheen

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe. — Martin Sheen

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

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

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

This supposed idyllic society we have is the most confused, warped, addicted society in the history of the world. We are addicted to power, we're addicted to our own image of ourselves, to violence, divorce, abortion, and sex. — Martin Sheen

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

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person. — Martin Sheen

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War. — Martin Sheen

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. You have no excuse if you are a conservative not to be concerned about the environment. You are equally responsible. — Martin Sheen

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

Life Lessons by Martin Sheen

1. Martin Sheen is an example of resilience and determination, having overcome personal struggles to become a successful actor.
2. He has also shown the importance of staying true to oneself and not compromising one's values.
3. He has also demonstrated the power of kindness and compassion, having spent much of his life advocating for social justice and helping those in need.