Benjamin Walker famous quotes

05-17-2025

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.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Divorce #Fighting #Two
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.
-- Benjamin Walker

#School #People #Acting
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.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Teacher #Art #Odds
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Mother #Stars #Law
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Jobs #Artist #Creative
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
You never can take for granted that you have a job.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Jobs #Granted
You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Ideas #Jokes
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

#Men #Thinking #Way
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 #Cameras
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.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Careers #Ideas #Decision
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?
-- Benjamin Walker

#Home #Waiting #Television
New Orleans in an amazing town.
-- Benjamin Walker

#New Orleans #Towns
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Dad #Careers #Kind
I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Comedy #Flailing
Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Jobs #Opportunity #Better Person
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Volunteer #Force #Armed Forces
Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Periods
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Actors #Dry #Going To Work
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
I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Cutting #Hands #Problem
I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Play #President #Projects
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
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.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Thinking #Ideas #People

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