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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

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Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

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What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

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When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

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I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

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I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

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Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

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I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

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I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 5th, 1940

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