Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
BENJAMIN WALKERPart of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
BENJAMIN WALKERI’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 WALKERThe 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 WALKERI’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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.
BENJAMIN WALKERYou never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
BENJAMIN WALKERMaybe 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 WALKERI only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
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?
BENJAMIN WALKERIf 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 WALKERMy dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
BENJAMIN WALKERDon’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
BENJAMIN WALKERYou never can take for granted that you have a job.
BENJAMIN WALKERNew Orleans in an amazing town.
BENJAMIN WALKERI 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?
BENJAMIN WALKEREvery job is an opportunity to be a better person.
BENJAMIN WALKER