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We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Martin Sheen

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Martin Sheen
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: August 3
Actor
Environmentalist
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Peace Activist
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Dayton
Ohio
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez
Ramon Gerardo Antonio Estevez
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”?
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While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.
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If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
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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.
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No matter what is going on, everything is grace.
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I am not the president instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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