Benjamin Bratt Quotes

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of - you know - of getting lost in the world you've created for yourself.

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.