Best 21 quotes of Benjamin Walker on MyQuotes

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

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

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

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

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

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.

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.

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

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.

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?

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.

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

New Orleans in an amazing town.

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

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.

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

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?

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 know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

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

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.