Benjamin Bratt Quotes

United States, Actor
December 16, 1963

Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. On television, Bratt portrayed NYPD Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order, Dr. Jake Reilly on ABC's Private Practice (2011–2013), and Steve Navarro on 24: Live Another Day (2014). In film, Bratt has appeared in Demolition Man (1993), Blood In Blood Out (1993), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Miss Congeniality (2000), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and its sequel (2013), La Mission (2009), The Lesser Blessed (2012), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Doctor Strange (2016), The Infiltrator (2016), Ride Along 2 (2016) and Coco (2017).

Fraternity life, for me, really was about cheap rent and three square.

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- Life
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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- Night
- Wife
- Romantic

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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- Work
- Men
- Death
I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

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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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- Family
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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- Real
- Dance
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

Benjamin Bratt
- Work
- Death
- Bored
It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

Benjamin Bratt
- Amazing

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

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

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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.

Benjamin Bratt
- Life
- Time
- Important
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?

Benjamin Bratt
- Live
- Society
- Culture
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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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
- She
- Character
- Boy

I've never given a bad audition in my life.

Benjamin Bratt
- Life
- Bad
Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

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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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- Latin
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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- Truth
- Emotional