Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitfordis an American film and television actor. He has played White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth10 October 1959
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
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Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
You 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.
Infuse your life with action...
Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.
Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.
Being on the show, you get this bizarre political credibility, which is embarrassing and unearned, because we're just actors doing a show.
It's a miracle to be able make a living in a non-humiliating way as an actor.
Just shut up and entertain me, meat puppet.
Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.
John was the guy saying, 'This is phenomenal. Relish this.' He was always saying that to me. It's very hard to understand how somebody just goes away.