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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.

Benjamin Bratt

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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School Style Training
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
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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Fallen Film Reason Together Unfortunately Working
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
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’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
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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Family Personal Strength
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
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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Facts Family Kids Large
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
As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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Color Reality Responsibility
I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Actors Form Ourselves
Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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Actors Employed Jobs
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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Deceit Lying Thinking
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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Culture Diversity Levels
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Acting Opportunity Real

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’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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