Benjamin Watson Quotes
You never really get to the point in any offense - even when I was in New England for six years - where things don't change.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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I've sung other people's music all my life.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
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We have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but today is overflowing with potential.
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Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.
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I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.
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You never really get to the point in any offense - even when I was in New England for six years - where things don't change.
