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If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Benjamin Walker

I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts’ academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Art Odds Teacher
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Current Feelings School
People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can’t divorce the two. It’s important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Bases Divorce Fighting People Two
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Force Knows Volunteer
I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Play President Project
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he’s just a person.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Men Thinking Way
I’m just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It’s like going back to acting school. When you’re around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Acting People School
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Career Dad Kind
Maybe I’m naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Careers Decision Ideas
Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Better Jobs Opportunity Person
New Orleans in an amazing town.
BENJAMIN WALKER

New Orleans Towns
I’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Comedy Flailing
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Artist Creative Jobs Juices
If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Jobs Learning Moon Something
You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Ideas Jokes Knows
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Actors Dry Going Work

If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

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If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

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