You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
BENJAMIN WALKERYou never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
BENJAMIN WALKEREven the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.
BENJAMIN WALKERYou never can take for granted that you have a job.
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 WALKERI’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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 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 WALKERYou know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.
BENJAMIN WALKERNew Orleans in an amazing town.
BENJAMIN WALKEREvery job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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 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 WALKERYou 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.
BENJAMIN WALKERI 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 WALKERDon’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.
BENJAMIN WALKERMy dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
BENJAMIN WALKER