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 BRATTAs a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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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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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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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 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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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’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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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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I have no particular career agenda.
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As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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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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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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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 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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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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