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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 completely death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

Benjamin Bratt

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.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Ambiguity Evil Law Sides
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
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
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 count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that’s had a full season run, but to actually be on one that’s gotten picked up for a second season.
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Running Seasons Victory
There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
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Children Length Order
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
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’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
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 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
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
I have no particular career agenda.
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Agenda Careers Particular
I’ve always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you’re doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It’s all make believe.
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Believe Drama 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
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’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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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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