Benjamin Bratt Quotes

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.

I try to have a true line in every character I play.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!