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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’ve made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Men Real Years
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
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I’m most passionate about, pale by comparison.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Daughter Mother Wife
Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Approach Feels Film Television
I wasn’t terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn’t terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Boys Character Kids
There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Children Length Order
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
Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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Actors Employed Jobs
I have no particular career agenda.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Agenda Careers Particular
So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it’s something that I’m familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Challenge Familiar Inherent Something Work
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Actor Film Honesty
I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Actors Form Ourselves
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 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 think there’s a settled quality, there’s a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there’s nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Children Priorities Thinking
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

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