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I’ve been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that’s not really there, but it wasn’t hard with Halle because she’s a great person and very beautiful, so it ain’t a tough job at the end of the day.

Benjamin Bratt

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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Actors Employed Jobs
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 have no particular career agenda.
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Agenda Careers Particular
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
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
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
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.
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Challenge Familiar Inherent Something Work
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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Matter Tongue World
I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Actors Form Ourselves
Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.
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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.
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Boys Character Kids
There’s no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the side of good can feel righteous in their approach to eliminating evil. There’s no ambiguity there.
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Ambiguity Evil Law Sides
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.
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Daughter Mother Wife

I’ve been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that’s not really there, but it wasn’t hard with Halle because she’s a great person and very beautiful, so it ain’t a tough job at the end of the day.

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I’ve been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that’s not really there, but it wasn’t hard with Halle because she’s a great person and very beautiful, so it ain’t a tough job at the end of the day.

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