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Martin Sheen

lines on the record: 42
first: 2011-04-03
most recent: 2011-04-03
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“You can have that. I would either be a sandwich or a nine iron, because I would imagine a desert island would have a lot of sand, so it's probably a pitching wedge would be better.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's one of the great pieces of music ever written in Pacabel's canon. It's hard to listen to this without touching something deeply personal and wanting to go there. If you wanted to begin a meditation, if you wanted a stillness, this would be a wonderful piece of classical music to begin by.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh you know I don't have a clue but the older I get the more I enjoy solitude. I don't get lonely when I'm alone. I don't spend nearly enough time alone. I love to read and listen to classical music.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well now, you know, I've always felt her presence, you know. I've never ever felt vacant of her company. I've always felt she was present to me”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dear friend McClark was doing a film called Pat Garrett and Villet a Kid with Chris Christopherson, and Chris asked of Bob Dylan to do the music on the film, which he did. Sam Peckenfaw was the director, and he didn't have a clue who Bob Dylan was. And this is at the height of Dylan's career and popularity. And Dylan, I'm told, was watching this scene. And he went home that night and came back the next day with a song.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Grapevine, or do you get a call from a studio head? No, I wouldn't even know who the studio head was, frankly. But yeah, I would get the word particularly through my agent or other members of the family. You know, like Charlie and Emilio had, you know, when they started very young and they were really doing some very big films and hanging out in some, you know, pretty hoity-toity company. So, yeah, they would tell me certain things, hey, hadn't you better be careful of this and that, you know? I was already in my forties to begin with. So the risk was limited in reality. I had a feeling that there were as many people that supported what I did that objected to it. So I think it all evens out, and if it didn't, I could care less, you know. Nothing I can do about it now anyway.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, a number of times, of course, you know. particularly in some of the more controversial subjects that I was not welcome in certain company, and that's okay.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, they don't all quite make a living yet. Renee, my daughter, was misses Lanningham's assistant on the West Wing. Right. Renee's also a professional chef. She went to chef school and she met her husband there. He's a professional chef as well. So they work a lot together.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The show on the road. Yeah, very much so. And, you know, it had its detraction as well because they gave up a lot of school and spent a lot of time on the road. On the other hand, they were exposed to, particularly third world countries that they normally never would have seen.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's how I feel about her. This again is one of my favorite hymns. And this is a real choral hymn. I love to sing this hymn and I love to hear it sung with a congregation, you know, or a choir, and that's what we have in this case. So this is a powerful, powerful hymn.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She's the most remarkable human being I've ever known, and I don't have a clue who she is. It's true. I mean, I don't. I mean, she's just extraordinary. She's like a teacher, a friend, companion, a lover, a wife, of course, a mother, all of these things. She's very much this individual. And she's a great, great sense of humor. I adore her, but honestly, I don't have a clue who she is. And I asked her once not too long ago. I said, you know, would you marry me today, knowing what you know? She says, are you kidding me? I was kidding.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, December 23rd. Yeah. We actually been together since 19. We met in December 1960 and we married a year later in 61. Okay. Yeah.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, you know Charlie is dealing with the most profound problems in addiction as no secret. You know, his behavior has been an example of that. So if he had cancer, you know, how would we deal with him? Well, he has another disease, and it's equally as dangerous as cancer. And so we lift him up. We pray for him and be present to him and try to lead him as much as we can, but he's an adult. He needs a lot of help on a lot of different levels. He's been out there on his own for a very long time. And as a family, you never get used to it. It's a roller coaster ride. It's been going on for some time. So we deal with it every day.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, yeah, no, I know I'm in the program. I've been since the mid-80s, really. I've been a member of AA. And it's been a lifeline.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, from that day may first, nineteen eighty one till the present really I'd been a practicing Catholic, and those twenty five years have been by far the most difficult and equally the happiest of my life. I became really fully involved in the social justice issues, included homelessness and human rights and women's rights and gay rights, and I began to risk, you know, I'd be arrested very often.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And at that time there was a national election going on in France and Francois Mitorin won the election, and this was his theme, Eau de Joy. And all of Paris, all of France were playing this everywhere you went. And this was at the same time that I was on the final step of a very important decision and that decision culminated in Paris on May 1st, nineteen eighty one, where I rejoined the Catholic faith.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, I think in I think that psychologically I gave myself that problem to stop the madness in my life. That began a journey of inward Proportion. I really was determined to. Try to find out what all this And so from nineteen seventy seven until nineteen eighty one I was on this quest, and it culminated in Paris in nineteen eighty one. I was doing a film in Paris, and I ran into an old dear friend Terrence Malik, whom I hadn't seen for a while. I was in his first movie Bad Lands. And he's a very devout man himself. Finally he gave me the one book that really was the final step that I needed to take, and it was The Brothers Karamatsov by Doshiki.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tests You know, when I finally got to the hospital, they were able to reach Janet, and she met me at Makati Medical Center, and they were terrific there. They really pulled it together for me. And she whispered in my ear It's only a movie, babe. And I started getting well right away. Yeah, it actually happened.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I remember specifically thinking, I said Well, it's not so bad, you know, because at that point the pain had stopped, you know, and I was resigned to it, and there was no fear. I remember that very, very specifically, and I remember going, you know, moving. And then I realized if I continued, I would not get back. And I had to very consciously stop this journey and get back because I had too much responsibility. I had children, little children and Janet, and it would be too much of a burden. So I began to literally will and bring myself back. I remember reaching down and pulling the grass and eating the grass, anything that was ground me again. Yes, anything that would connect me and determine to stay alive. And the more I got back into living, consciousness, the worse the pain became again because, you know.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh my God. Jan and I were renting a little cottage up on a volcanic lake in the Philippines, and we used to go on weekends to Manila to make phone calls home. There were no cell phones in those days. But this particular weekend, it was hard to get a hotel room. So Janet went Friday night because I had to work Saturday morning and got us a room and was waiting for me. And of course I never showed up because I'd had a heart attack in the meantime. It came on a very early Saturday morning and I was isolated so I had to get to the road somehow. I don't know quite how I got crawled actually. I thought it was the end. Did you? You saw that? Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought, well, this is what it's like to die.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a long and arduous journey not the least of which were some bad weather. You know, we got hit with a couple of severe storms, one which knocked out the sets, you know, and sent us”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was he a hero of heroes? Yes, he was. How was that to work with him? I adored him. You know, he was so disarming and so genuine.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're Well, it's I never listened to classical musical music when I was a boy. My wife, Janet, who was a musician in high school, introduced me to classical music, and this was one of her favorites. So it always reminded me of her.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that was in the summer of nineteen sixty four. In the spring of nineteen sixty nine I was working in Italy. I had Emilio and Ramon with me. I had a week off and we went to Spain, found the house, and visited the family, and it's the house that he grew up in. I didn't realize it till the next morning, but Emilio and I and Ramon slept in the bed he was born in. And when we got up in the morning, There was a poster on the wall of the play that I had done. Unbeknownst to me he'd taken the poster home and displayed it. In the last scene, if anyone knows that play the son tells the father he loves him.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He didn't come back. He didn't come. No, no, I waited for him. He didn't come back. He didn't come back. I didn't know what happened. I was waiting for him, you know. I called home and they had just arrived. They just took a cab and went home. He never, ever said a word about the performance, the play, anything.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah. He came to New York on his way to Spain. He was going to go home and live out the remaining years back home. And I was on Broadway in a play called The Subject Was Roses, and it was an enormous hit. And it was a play about family and particularly about fathers and sons, and he came to see it, and I played that night for him, and I never played better in my life before or since.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, they were each other and they really depended upon each other. And suddenly the prop came out from the tent and the tent collapsed. And he was broken. And, you know, he went into a deep depression and he didn't share any of it. You almost didn't want to bother him. He just went inside deep inside himself. And it was years before he came out.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very so. Right, okay. She was a very lively lady, you know, she loved to sing and chat. She was a deeply spiritual person. And there was a great deal of joy and energy in her, you know. And then suddenly it was gone.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was not a happy man. He had put a few dollars aside each week for me to go to college And I was determined to go to New York and give the theater a try. And so it became a very difficult and bitter dispute between us.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, you know, I started going to the movies. I guess I was around five or six. And I knew that this was what I was going to do. And I knew that if I didn't do it, even as a child, I knew this, I would never be happy.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What are we going to hear now Any Mozart for me is half a speed and a rhythm of its own. If I'm driving and I listen to a classical station most of the time in Los Angeles and do a lot of driving, when Mozart comes on, I'll pass my destination rather than stop and shut it off. I cannot bear to stop Mozart.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't really have that much. Well, frankly, yeah, we did give most of it away. Honestly, we did. You know, with family, with friends, trying to help people's dreams come true in the family, you know? Sure, why not? What's the point in having it, you know?”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't earn that much anymore. I mean, when I was younger, yeah, I did very well. But no, I don't make that many films anymore, and the ones that I do are not box office hits, you know.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Entitlement and privilege that I resented deeply. Well, I remember when there's a particular golf course I pass almost every day in Los Angeles. I read the brochure and how much it cost to join and the dues every year. What did it cost, do you remember? It was about two hundred seventy thousand dollars to join and it was about $25,000 a year from membership, you know.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, very much so, yeah. I fell in love with golf, I learned how to play, I was pretty good as a teenager. I play at public courses because I'm just not comfortable belonging to anything private. I keep the sticks in the car, you know, and you just have to be patient.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my mother died when I was young. I was almost 11 when she died in 1951. So my dad basically raised us, you know. But all my brothers in front of me had become caddies at a very young age at this private golf course in Dayton. And when I was nine years old, I was expected to join the Caddy Brigade, and I did.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Extremely tight. And yet there wasn't this great concern about it. I mean, we never felt the want for anything. We always were housed, you know, and there was always enough food.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Apart from being jammed. Very noisy. There was a phrase that said a lot about our house growing up is first up, best dressed. There was a clothes bin there.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fortunate timing, to say the least. Very unfortunate. He left with his brother Alfonso for the New World. He was 16 years old. And he met my mother, who had come from Ireland. They were married in nineteen twenty seven in Ohio, and they had twelve pregnancies, ten survived, nine boys, one girl. And I was a seventh son.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Were immigrants. My dad was born on July 2nd, eighteen ninety eight, which is the very day that the United States declared war on Spain.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're gonna hear how can I keep from singing? It is my favorite hymn it has been a great source of inspiration for me in particular very dark times. It is a reaffirmation of the I should say the cherished belief I have in faith. This hymn speaks to that in a deeply personal way. It's like in the worst of times there is still so much to give thanks and praise for. Now no matter what the circumstances I say thanks it's been wonderful. I couldn't have asked for anything more.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I really don't anticipate ever influencing anyone to do anything, frankly. All of my social justice activism has been for myself. I do it for myself. And you do it because you cannot not do it and be yourself.”
2011-04-03 · Desert Island Discs · Martin Sheen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source