Benjamin Bratt Quotes
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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After I took up etchings c. 1915, my paintings seemed to crystallize.
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The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
