Top 35 Benjamin Bratt Quotes

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

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I’m most passionate about, pale by comparison.

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.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it’s romantic.

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

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important.

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’m used to the fact that the world views movie actors as personalities. I’m in the extremely fortunate position of making a living at something I’m passionate about. It’s all about choices. By the nature of what I do, I make a choice. I invite them in.

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

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

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

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 love doing voiceover work.

I’ve had a terrible career.

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

I’ve always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

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

I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it’s much tougher to do it on film.

I have no particular career agenda.

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 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.

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.

I’m not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

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

Fraternity life, for me, really was about cheap rent and three square.

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

I’ve played a lot of cop parts.

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.’

The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I’ve kind of owned everything under the sun since then.

It’s an amazing blessing to do something you love.

I used to work in Starbucks.

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.