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 BRATTI’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 death, is if you’re bored. The boredom will show in your work.
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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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I have no particular career agenda.
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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 death, is if you’re bored. The boredom will show in your work.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.
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I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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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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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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