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The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.

Benjamin Bratt

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that’s had a full season run, but to actually be on one that’s gotten picked up for a second season.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Running Seasons Victory
I have no particular career agenda.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Agenda Careers Particular
I don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
BENJAMIN BRATT

School Style Training
I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Actor Mind Television
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Culture Diversity Levels
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it’s romantic.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Beach Sexy Stars
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Facts Family Kids Large
I’ve always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you’re doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It’s all make believe.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Believe Drama Honesty
No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you’re from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that’s always funny.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Matter Tongue World
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Actor Film Honesty
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Family Personal Strength
As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Color Reality Responsibility
I believe there’s a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don’t think you have to be one to be another.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Believe Men Real
I’m oftentimes called away from my family… it’s rather hard for me to be away from them. We’re very close.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Away Hard Oftentiems
She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Fallen Film Reason Together Unfortunately Working
As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Important Life Precious Time

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.

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