Bratt's Quotes

#1. I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

George Clooney

#2. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#3. My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

Benjamin Bratt

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

Benjamin Bratt

#5. I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Benjamin Bratt

#6. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#7. I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.

Benjamin Bratt

#8. As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility.

Benjamin Bratt

#9. Some women are saddled with men who have interrupted their true fate and their hearts suffer before they have realized it.

Kay Bratt

#10. When people use statistics, in 72% of cases, they've made them up on the spur of the moment. Katrine Bratt

Jo Nesbo

#11. Not sure how much longer she can continue her fight for the children or how much more of her there is to give, she pledged to keep going until she no longer can.

Kay Bratt

#12. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#13. I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Benjamin Bratt

#14. The truth, in the right hands, can be a very flexible tool.

Gabriel Boutros

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

Benjamin Bratt

#16. On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

Benjamin Bratt

#17. Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Benjamin Bratt

#18. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#19. I need to know who I was, in order to go forward and be who I am meant to be.

Kay Bratt

#20. As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.

Benjamin Bratt

#21. I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy ... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.

Sandra Bullock

#22. I have no particular career agenda.

Benjamin Bratt

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

Benjamin Bratt

#24. I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

Amy Poehler

#25. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#26. Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Benjamin Bratt

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

Benjamin Bratt

#28. I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

Benjamin Bratt

#29. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#30. The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

Benjamin Bratt

#31. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#32. I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Benjamin Bratt

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

Benjamin Bratt

#34. 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.

Benjamin Bratt

#35. Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Benjamin Bratt

#36. Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

Benjamin Bratt

#37. No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

Benjamin Bratt