My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
BENJAMIN WALKERThe place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don’t care how I get it, whether it’s on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We’re interested in the idea of immorality and I think we’re drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
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Maybe I’m naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
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If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
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You never can take for granted that you have a job.
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can’t divorce the two. It’s important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.
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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.
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You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he’s just a person.
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You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
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Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don’t care how I get it, whether it’s on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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Don’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
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I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, ‘When am I ever going to use this?
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