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You never can take for granted that you have a job.

Benjamin Walker

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.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Acting People School
Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Better Jobs Opportunity Person
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.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Careers Decision Ideas
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts’ academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Art Odds Teacher
Don’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Periods Troubled Trust
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Actors Dry Going Work
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Force Knows Volunteer
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.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Bad Feel Ideas Impulse People Thinking
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.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Bases Divorce Fighting People Two
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.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Jobs Learning Moon Something
I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Play President Project
You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Ideas Jokes Knows
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Current Feelings School
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?
BENJAMIN WALKER

Home Television Waiting
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
BENJAMIN WALKER

Artist Creative Jobs Juices
You never can take for granted that you have a job.
BENJAMIN WALKER

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