Quotes from Benjamin Bratt

I think a lot of us often don't express how we really feel because we're afraid of what others might think of us. So we secretly admire people who could care less. They do things that we don't allow ourselves to do.

The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

My brother Peter was always the life of the party, and so the running joke for the first 12 years of my life was he was Pete, and I was 'Re-Pete.'

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.

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

Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.

We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?

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

I've played a lot of cop parts.

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

I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.

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 said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

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.

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.

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

The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes that you're involved in honest and real. You're not concerned with the technical aspect of things, and then you sit in the movie theater, and you watch it with everyone else, you realize that, 'Man, this is pretty exciting.'

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.

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

My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.

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

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.

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.