As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
BENJAMIN BRATTI’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.
More Benjamin Bratt Quotes
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I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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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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Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.
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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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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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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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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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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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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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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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I have no particular career agenda.
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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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Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.
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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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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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