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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

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.
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Children Priorities Thinking
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids.
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Facts Family Kids Large
As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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Color Reality Responsibility
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.
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Men Real Years
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
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Actor Film Honesty
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.
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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.
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Important Life Precious Time
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.
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Culture Diversity Levels
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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Family Personal Strength
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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Acting Opportunity Real
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.
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Believe Men Real
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.
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Beach Sexy Stars
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.
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Actor Mind Television
I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Actors Form Ourselves
I’m oftentimes called away from my family… it’s rather hard for me to be away from them. We’re very close.
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Away Hard Oftentiems
Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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Actors Employed Jobs

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.

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