Benjamin Bratt Quotes
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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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My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.
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I used to work in Starbucks.
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The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes that you're involved in honest and real. You're not concerned with the technical aspect of things, and then you sit in the movie theater, and you watch it with everyone else, you realize that, 'Man, this is pretty exciting.'
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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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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 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.
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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.
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I think a lot of us often don't express how we really feel because we're afraid of what others might think of us. So we secretly admire people who could care less. They do things that we don't allow ourselves to do.
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I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.
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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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The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.
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I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.
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I'm used to the fact that the world views movie actors as personalities. I'm in the extremely fortunate position of making a living at something I'm passionate about. It's all about choices. By the nature of what I do, I make a choice. I invite them in.
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I've played a lot of cop parts.
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I have no particular career agenda.
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My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.
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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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My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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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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Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.
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I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.
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Fraternity life, for me, really was about cheap rent and three square.
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It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.