screenplays-by-aaron-sorkin

"Arliss Howard - John W. Henry"

"Spike Jonze - Alán"

"Ken Medlock - Grady Fuson"

"Kerris Dorsey - Casey Beane"

"Robin Wright - Sharon"

"Chris Pratt - Scott Hatteberg"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Art Howe"

"Jonah Hill - Peter Brant"

"Brad Pitt - Billy Beane"

"There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what is really happening. And this leads people who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams. I apologize. (Billy Beane: Go on.) Okay. People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs. You're trying to replace Johnny Damon. The Boston Red Sox see Johnny Damon and they see a star who's worth seven and half million dollars a year. When I see Johnny Damon, what I see is... is... an imperfect understanding of where runs come from. The guy's got a great glove. He's a decent leadoff hitter. He can steal bases. But is he worth the seven and half million dollars a year that the Boston Red Sox are paying him? No. No. Baseball thinking is medieval. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say it to anybody, I'm-I'm ostracized. I'm-I'm-I'm a leper. So that's why I'm-I'm cagey about this with you. That's why I... I respect you, Mr. Beane, and if you want full disclosure, I think it's a good thing that you got Damon off your payroll. I think it opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities."

"[Addressing his baseball scouts] The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us. It's an unfair game. And now we've been gutted. We're like organ donors for the rich. Boston's taken our kidneys, Yankees have taken our heart. And you guys just sit around talking the same old "good body" nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio. We've got to think differently. We are the last dog at the bowl. You see what happens to the runt of the litter? He dies."

"David Hutchison - John Mabry"

"Royce Clayton - Miguel Tejada"

"Stephen Bishop - David Justice"

"Casey Bond - Chad Bradford"

"Well, there were three of them; it was like being slapped around by a Pakistani vaudeville team."

"My loyalty? For 24 years people have been trying to kill me, people who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker or because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!"

"A boy is given a horse on his 14th birthday. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how wonderful.” But a Zen master who lives in the village says, “We'll see.” 'The boy falls off the horse and breaks his foot. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how awful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.” The village is thrown into war and all the young men have to go to war. But, because of the broken foot, the boy stays behind. Everyone says, “Oh, how wonderful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.”"

"Thats how a cold war turns into a real war and that's something you want to keep a very good eye on."

"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the end game."

"You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup."

"Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade"

"For reasons passing understanding, people do not relate guns to gun-related crime."

"For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being President of this country was, to a certain extent, about character. And although I've not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I have been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation - being President of this country is entirely about character. For the record, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU, but the more important question is, why aren't you, Bob? Now this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question, why would a Senator, his party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? Now if you can answer that question, folks, then you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a few hours ago. America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free. I've known Bob Rumson for years, and I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle age, middle class, middle income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family, and American values and character, and you wave an old photo of the President's girlfriend and you scream about patriotism. You tell them she's to blame for their lot in life. And you go on television and you call her a whore. Sydney Ellen Wade has done nothing to you, Bob. She has done nothing but put herself through school, represent the interests of public school teachers, and lobby for the safety of our natural resources. You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with me, 'cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league. I've loved two women in my life. I lost one to cancer. And I lost the other 'cause I was so busy keeping my job, I forgot to do my job. Well, that ends right now. Tomorrow morning, the White House is sending a bill to Congress for its consideration. It's White House Resolution 455, an energy bill requiring a twenty percent reduction of the emission of fossil fuels over the next ten years. It is by far the most aggressive stride ever taken in the fight to reverse the effects of global warming. The other piece of legislation is the Crime Bill. As of today, it no longer exists. I'm throwing it out. I'm throwing it out and writing a law that makes sense. You cannot address crime prevention without getting rid of assault weapons and handguns. I consider them a threat to national security, and I will go door-to-door if I have to, but I'm gonna convince Americans that I'm right, and I'm gonna get the guns. We've got serious problems, and we need serious people. And if you want to talk about character, Bob, you'd better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I'll show up. This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I AM THE PRESIDENT!"

"How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans?"

"Why can't the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?"

"Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd"

"Martin Sheen - A. J. MacInerney"

"Michael J. Fox - Lewis Rothschild"

"Anna Deavere Smith - Robin McCall"

"David Paymer - Leon Kodak"

"Richard Dreyfuss - Senator Bob Rumson"

"I want you to know that I think the whole fucking bunch of you are certifiably insane. This code of honor of yours makes me want to beat the shit out of somebody."

"Aaron Sorkin - Lawyer bragging in tavern"

"Christopher Guest - Dr.Stone"

"Joshua Malina - Tom"

"Xander Berkeley - Captain Whitaker"

"John M. Jackson - Captain West"

"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Corporal Carl Hammaker"

"Noah Wyle - Corporal Jeffrey Barnes"

"J.A. Preston - Judge Julius Alexander Randolph"

"Wolfgang Bodison - Lance Corporal Harold W.Dawson"

"Matt Craven - Lieutenant Dave Spradling"

"James Marshall - Private First Class Louden Downey"

"Kevin Pollak - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Weinberg"

"J.T. Walsh - Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Markinson"

"Kiefer Sutherland - Lieutenant Jonathan Kendrick"

"Kevin Bacon - Captain Jack Ross"

"Jack Nicholson - Colonel Nathan R.Jessup"

"Demi Moore - Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway"