Benjamin Bratt quotes

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important. (Benjamin Bratt)

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

Benjamin Bratt

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Benjamin Bratt

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.

Benjamin Bratt

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Benjamin Bratt

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

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The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

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I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

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I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy. (Benjamin Bratt)

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.

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I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

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I have no particular career agenda.

Benjamin Bratt

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Benjamin Bratt

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

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I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

Benjamin Bratt

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach. All the homework is the same. The homework for each medium is all similar, but the gratification in a live theater context is much higher, because it's immediate. It's far more dangerous, because there are no retakes. It's electric, it's an actual chemical transaction that occurs between you and the audience. Whatever energy you're throwing out to them they throw it right back to you, and it kind of feeds on itself in this vacuum...

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It can be considered by many to be foolhardy, especially when you're messing with what's considered a sacred text. But it's also an irresistible challenge, isn't it? It evokes so many different wild and outrageous and beautiful images that anyone who loves both novels and films can't help but imagine what it would look like on the big screen. In this case I'm glad they took the challenge on. I think Marquez is glad too. Apparently he's seen it and he's responded favorably to it, he likes it. The trick is, as you aptly point out, is how to do it but how to do it well. Because it's not an easy translation to make, and certainly nearly impossible when you're talking about a great novel, which this is. The best you can hope for really is to capture the essence of the book, and I think the film has done that, which is good news.

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I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

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I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison. (Benjamin Bratt)

I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Benjamin Bratt

Well it was a bit of a conundrum because his actions in his kind of business had a real ugliness. It's power and violence and murder and mayhem and menace. And yet, I thought it was a mistake as an actor to predetermine or prejudge whether he's a good guy or a bad guy. You can't go into any characterization with that opinion or attitude or approach because it's sudden death. What it will convey ultimately is a one-dimensional character – the figure in the black hat that you've you seen countless time...

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