Benjamin Walker Quotes

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

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

New Orleans in an amazing town.

- Benjamin Walker

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.

- Benjamin Walker

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.

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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?'

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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.

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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?

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

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.

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

- Benjamin Walker

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

- Benjamin Walker

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

- Benjamin Walker

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

- Benjamin Walker