Benjamin Bratt

“I've had a terrible career.”

“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.”

“I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've played a lot of cop parts.”

“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?”

“My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.”

“I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.”

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

“I love doing voiceover work.”

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

“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.”

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

“I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.”

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