Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.
BENJAMIN WALKERYou 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.
More Benjamin Walker Quotes
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Don’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
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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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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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I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
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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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I’m just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It’s like going back to acting school. When you’re around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something.
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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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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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I’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
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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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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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You never can take for granted that you have a job.
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