Best Aaron Sorkin Quotes
- The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you. All
- There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to… Great
- I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. Beyond
- It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you. Entertainment
- It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. Advertiser
- Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. Audience
- Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what… Bone
- You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these… Believe
- I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five, Don T
- It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. Combination
- Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Borrow
- Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall… Asleep
- Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating… Age
- President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people… Arrogant
- Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now. Hate
- Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent. All
- I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through… Analyze
- I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the… Agent
- An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky. Artist
- And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe. Lake
- Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. Behind
- Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that… America
- This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. Bob
- If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind. Change
- Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best… Absolutely