Timothy Bottoms Quotations

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

My hope is that we can light a match, like they really did in '69, through my father (the artist Bud Bottoms) and the people who started the environmental movement. Oh, it was around before then, but they gave it a name and gave it a flag and gave it a purpose and gave it a cause,

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

When you look at the footage, even where the eye hit, what do you see? Complete destruction. Everything's piled up against trees. Those big cypress trees lost all their branches, but they still held the ground. And that's what Chris is saying. They should be planting what's left out there, get that seed stock growing so that they can build soil,

Every night I'd come home to try and rest, turn on the tube, and there was George Bush leading the charge into Iraq, so I was inundated with him.

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.