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Benjamin Bratt

Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.
BENJAMIN BRATT

Approach Feels Film Television
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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Acting Opportunity Real
I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.
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Actors Form Ourselves
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
As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
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Color Reality Responsibility
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
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
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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Ambiguity Evil Law Sides
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
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 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 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
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 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’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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Blessing Men Years
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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Believe Men Real

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