You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
BENJAMIN WALKERPeople 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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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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My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
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I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
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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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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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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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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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Don’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
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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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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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You never can take for granted that you have a job.
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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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I’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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