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 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.
More Benjamin Walker Quotes
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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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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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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.
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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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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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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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My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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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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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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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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I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
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