Benjamin Bratt Quotes

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Actors are investigators.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

I really take acting seriously.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I've taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.

I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor - the day in and day out of it.

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

For me acting is passion, emotion, and creating the character and the whole world around the character. We enjoy all that. Sleeping on time, eating healthy, you are what your lifestyle is.

Every actor has a method.

There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.