Benjamin Bratt Quotes

Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.

My mother’s a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

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.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I’ve played ‘Latin-looking spiv, third from the right’ so many times I can’t count.

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that’s had a full season run, but to actually be on one that’s gotten picked up for a second season.

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

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.

I think a lot of us often don’t express how we really feel because we’re afraid of what others might think of us. So we secretly admire people who could care less. They do things that we don’t allow ourselves to do.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.

I don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

I’m oftentimes called away from my family… it’s rather hard for me to be away from them. We’re very close.

I love doing voiceover work.

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

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.’

I have no particular career agenda.

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

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids.

My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn’t surviving too much.

I’ve had a terrible career.

I used to work in Starbucks.

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.

I’ve always said that Miguel Pinero’s story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.