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I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

Benjamin Bratt

As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Color Reality Responsibility
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Actor Film 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
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’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 find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Actors Form Ourselves
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
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
There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
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Children Length Order
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
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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Men Real Years
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 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
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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Family Personal Strength
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 think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

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