Benjamin Walker Quotes

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.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

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

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.

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?'

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

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

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.

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

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

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

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

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

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

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.

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

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