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.
BENJAMIN BRATTI 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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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 come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids.
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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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My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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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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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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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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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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I have no particular career agenda.
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I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
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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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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 find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
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