Benjamin Bratt Quotes
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I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.
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I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
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My brother Peter was always the life of the party, and so the running joke for the first 12 years of my life was he was Pete, and I was 'Re-Pete.'
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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.
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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.
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I've had a terrible career.
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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.
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I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.
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I've never given a bad audition in my life.
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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.
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Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
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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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We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?
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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.
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I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.
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I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.
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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.
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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.