Quotes by 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.
– Benjamin Bratt
I also think that, as a fellow human being, I should be accorded a level of privacy and respect as anyone else. So, it's a delicate balance and some of the things that are written or speculated, rumours that have circulated, you've gotta just laugh at them and have a sense of humour about them and not take them so seriously.
– Benjamin Bratt
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
– 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 don't think that there is any longer a dark shadow cast over actors who work in television, so I would readily go back.
– Benjamin Bratt
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
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
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
I'm on a real roll. Since I left Law and Order, I've made six films. The whole reason I left Law and Order was I wanted to have a life. That show is a huge commitment.
– 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
My mother was born in Lima, Peru, and my father is American of primarily German and English descent. And as I understand it, Bratt is of English origin. People often ask me if it's a stage name. In fact, it is not.
– Benjamin Bratt
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
When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.
– Benjamin Bratt
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
– 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