Quotes by Benjamin Bratt

About Benjamin Bratt:

Benjamin George Bratt is an American actor. He is best known for his role as NYPD Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order, for which he was nominated for the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He has appeared in the films Demolition Man (1993), Blood In Blood Out (1993), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Miss Congeniality (2003), Catwoman (2004), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), La Mission (2009), The Lesser Blessed (2012), and Despicable Me 2 (2013). Bratt is also known for his roles as Dr. Jake Reilly on ABC's Private Practice (2011–13), and Steve Navarro on Fox's 24: Live Another Day (2014).
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I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

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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

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

Benjamin Bratt

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

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

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

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.

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

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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 compari...

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Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being s...

Benjamin Bratt

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

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

I have no particular career agenda.

Benjamin Bratt

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Benjamin Bratt

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

Benjamin Bratt

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

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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBenjamin Bratt
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornDecember 16, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor