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.
BENJAMIN BRATTI’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.
More Benjamin Bratt Quotes
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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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Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.
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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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Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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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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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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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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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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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 have no particular career agenda.
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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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As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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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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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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