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?
BENJAMIN WALKERI’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
More Benjamin Walker Quotes
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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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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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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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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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Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.
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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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Don’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
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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 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.
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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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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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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.
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