Quotes by Ben Foster - Page 1

My job is all about defending the people that I play.
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Defending
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I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
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Shy
Center
Myself Being Like
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I would come home from school every Wednesday, order pizza, and watch 'X-Files.' I was devoted.
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Devoted
Pizza
Wednesday
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I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
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Irony
Sacrifice
Sarcasm
Sick
Sincerely
Root
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I think a long-term TV show is probably not for me, but doing a few years of something could be interesting.
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Long Term
Me Doing Something
Tv Show
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I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something.
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Lets
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The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
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Ability
Hard Work
Heat
Magnetism
Natural
Natural Ability
Young Actors
Actor
Burns
Rest
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There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
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Soldier
Warrior
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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Dialogue
Forty
Silent
Cent
Drop
Gesture
Per
Twenty
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People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.
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Angry
Mug
Turns
Life Dad Me
Inherited
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My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
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Stooges
Robin
Williams
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We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
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Naturalism
Entirely
Ignore
Influenced
Primarily
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The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
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Conflict
Drama
Interests
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I don't watch most of the movies I'm in. Ever. They're like a bad relationship where, after you break up, you don't want to look over all the valentines.
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Relationship
Break
Valentines
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The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman against woman; it's not flesh against flesh. It's flesh against machine.
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Wicked
Man Way Woman
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I don't like to rehearse, and the film-makers that I have been drawn to are interested in provoking something between people rather than nailing a scene in advance.
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Provoking
Advance
Drawn
Film-Makers
Rehearse
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I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.
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Real Freedom
Life Freedom Myself
In The End
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It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.
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Experience
Informing
Okay
Richness
Greatest
Cause
Gift
Fail
Greatest Gift
Possibly
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'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
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Deals
Dynamics
Mental Health
Named
Streetcar
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Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
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Actively
Look People Never
Presence
Repeatedly
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
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Distance
Meditation
Spirituality
Defy
Identify
Web
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Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
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Available
Blessing
Variables
Account
Work Better Feel
Drawn
Paying
Rent
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Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
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Attention
Bandwidth
Concentration
Ends
Instinct
Intuition
Light
Meditation
Racket
Strong
Transcendental
Battery
Been
Turning
Nap
Run
Down
Giant
Outside
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I have a lot of respect for, always dig, the crew. Sometimes a lot more than the cast. But a good run production team is paramount to making a good film. You just can't it done without a good line producer, without creative producers, without people who are making stuff happen.
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Creative
Crew
Paramount
Good Respect Always
Good Respect People
Cast
Dig
Good Film
Producer
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I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
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Holding On
Solitude
Driver
Economical
Holding
Lock
Releasing
Tightly
Wheel
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We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.
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Cutting
Depth
Homework
Naturalism
Pursue
Shaking
Bogus
Dig
Documentary
Provoke
Rehearse
Russian
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