Benjamin Bratt Quotes
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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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
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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.'
