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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.
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Ambiguity Evil Law Sides
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
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
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
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
There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
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Children Length Order
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
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
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
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 don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
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School Style Training
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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Beautiful Day End Jobs
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
As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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Color Reality Responsibility
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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Family Personal Strength
I have no particular career agenda.
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Agenda Careers Particular
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
I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
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Interesting Real Thinking
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
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’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
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
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he’s most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that’s where his strength lies.
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Deceit Lying Thinking
I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Actors Form Ourselves
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
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 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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