Benjamin Walker Quotes

• The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

  Benjamin Walker

  Mother, Stars, Law

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• Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

  Benjamin Walker

  Jobs, Artist, Creative Juices

  "Finding the funny" by Lizzie Widdicombe, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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• You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

  Benjamin Walker

  School, Feelings, Currents

  "Interview: Benjamin Walker and the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Interview with Sharon Steel, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2010.

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• People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.

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  Divorce, Fighting, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• You never can take for granted that you have a job.

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  Jobs, Granted

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• You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

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  Ideas, Jokes, Knows

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• You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

  Benjamin Walker

  Thinking, Men, Way

  "Interview: Benjamin Walker and the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Interview with Sharon Steel, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something.

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  School, People, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

  Benjamin Walker

  Jobs, Moon, Tvs

  "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

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  Careers, Ideas, Decision

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• The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

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  Home, Waiting, Television

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• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

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  Teacher, Art, Odds

  Source: collider.com

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• New Orleans in an amazing town.

  Benjamin Walker

  New Orleans, Towns

  "Benjamin Walker Talks Research, Balancing History with the Supernatural, Playing Different Ages and More on the Set of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview, collider.com. June 13, 2012.

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• My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

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  Dad, Careers, Kind

  "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

  Benjamin Walker

  Comedy, Flailing

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• Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Better Person

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• You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

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  Volunteer, Force, Knows

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• Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

  Benjamin Walker

  Periods, Don't Trust

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• Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

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  Actors, Dry, Going To Work

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• I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

  Benjamin Walker

  Not Happy, Felt, Picks

  "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

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  Cutting, Hands, Problem

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• I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

  Benjamin Walker

  Play, President, Projects

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• I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

  Benjamin Walker

  Thinking, Class, Use

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• The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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