Let me tell you something, jackass!

hazel-scully:

My trailer’s been known as the party trailer. It’s decorated with lots of red and it looks like a den of iniquity. I like music. I like to dance. Some nights in the first season we couldn’t get our scheduling together. So most of the time we were hanging out in our trailers for so many hours it was unbelievable. And we were bored out of our minds. I brought my CDs and there was a compilation with a song on it, “The Jackal.” I memorized all the lines to perform it for Richard [Schiff], because I wanted to make him laugh. He became a part of it, the air drummer, the air saxophone player, the air everything. And he would make me laugh harder than I’ve ever laughed, seeming him do all these little moves of being this cool jazz guy.

One night we brought Aaron [Sorkin] and Lew Wells and a bunch of people into my trailer and we did it for them. Aaron laughed so hard and the next thing I knew it was in the script. I was amazed that he was able to bring that into this show. They had to reshoot it because the first time, it was more like Allison Janney would do it, not like CJ. It was wild. I was just going crazy. And they said, “You can’t be so good at it. CJ wouldn’t be as good at it as you are.”

-The West Wing: The Official Companion,

(Source: pamelapegasusthornton, via seariderfalcon)

pitypie:

Wouldn’t it be great if Josh Malina won an Oscar and forgot to thank Aaron Sorkin?

pitypie:

What.. even…?

svuetc:

dontforgettohugyourangel:

fuckyesaaronsorkin:

sheercalculatedsilliness:

orworse—expelled:

shelightsupwell:

BARTLET: It says here in a briefing paper hastily written by Deputy Josh Lyman that in the ’60s, when the Madison Superintendent of Schools banned Twelfth Night for reasons passing understanding, a Mrs. Molly Morello had students over to her house on Saturdays to read it.
DONNA: I didn’t know that, sir. Josh wrote you a memo on Molly Morello?
BARTLET: Yeah, ‘cause all I had tonight was a nuclear spill in Idaho. It says she came in two hours early to teach an AP English class she developed herself because the school didn’t offer one.
DONNA: I was in that class.
BARTLET: Sounds like she deserves a proclamation. I wish I could give her one, but I can’t.
DONNA: I totally understand.
BARTLET: It’s just too much inside baseball, you know?
DONNA: You’re very nice to even talk to me about it.
BARTLET: Charlie, I’ve been tapping my finger on the desk for about a minute now.
CHARLIE: Sir?
BARTLET: The magic man thing works a lot better when you pick up on the signals, Tonto. What’s that you say? There’s a phone call for Donna? [Donna looks shocked as Bartlet hits the speakerphone.] Good evening, this is the White House, for whom are you holding?
MRS. MORELLO: [on the phone] I’m holding for Donna Moss. This is Mrs. Morello.
DONNA: [whispering] Oh my God.
MRS. MORELLO: Donna?
DONNA: Mrs. Morello, it’s me.
MRS. MORELLO: Is everything all right?
DONNA: Everything’s fine.
MRS. MORELLO: I hadn’t heard from you in such a long time so I thought…
DONNA: No, everything’s fine. Sally Seidelman told me you were retiring.
MRS. MORELLO: At the end of this year.
DONNA: Well, I… I just wanted to say. I don’t know, I just… I just wanted to say…  I don’t know.
MRS. MORELLO: Are — are you sure everything’s all right?
BARTLET: [whispering] Tell her where you are.
DONNA: Mrs. Morello, I’m in the Oval Office with the President of the United States and it’s because of you.
       - The West Wing, 3x18 “Stirred”

“Mrs. Morello, I’m in the Oval Office with the President of the United States and it’s because of you.”

Just watched this scene. The tears on my face are making it hard to type.

Even just reading the transcript this scene gives me chills

Such a sweet and lovely scene.