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 BRATTNo 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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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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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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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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There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
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I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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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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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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Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
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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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My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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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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I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
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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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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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