Quotes by Ben Schnetzer - Page 1

Movies should make people uncomfortable sometimes.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Uncomfortable
Movies People Sometimes
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I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
New York City
City New Born
Bred
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Most of stuff I audition for is stuff I think is socially relevant.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Relevant
Audition
Socially
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No matter how cold you are or how hungry you are, you might be warm tomorrow.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Cold
Hungry
Tomorrow
Warm
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Obviously, as an actor, when you re playing a real person, it is an extra challenge.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Real Person
Extra
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Rite
Passage
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Explore
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I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Technology
Challenges
Use
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Opposite
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Play
Practicals
World
Practical
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I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Nearly
Drama School
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A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Dealing
Inflict
Symptom
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I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Bricks
Unemployed
Time Know Right
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A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Done
Products
Seeing
Thinking
Product
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There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Dynamics
Messing
Tread
Waters
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The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Comfortable
Ideas
Masculinity
Vulnerability
Deal
Healthier
Healthy Thing
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If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Acknowledgement
Employment
Honest
Norm
Audition
Friend
My Friend
To Be Honest
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It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Scripts
Stretch
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If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Jobs
Actors
Rejection
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Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Art
Morning
Thinking
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You want to bring it every day. But if you have a bad day in the theatre, a couple of hundred people see it. That sucked; we'll get back to it. You have a bad day on film, it's just on DVD for the rest of your life.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Bad Day
Life Your Day
Sucked
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Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Capture
Cgi
Cutting
Cutting Edge
New Technology
Time Technology New
Edge
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When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Rehearsal
Showing Up
Showing
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I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Art
Ambition
Drawing
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Whatever the genre of film you're doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it's the same work, as an actor. You're just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Different
Reality
Trying
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I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Work
Amazing
Amazing People
Couple
Grateful
Grind
Honest
Past
Want
Years
Work Past People
Feel
Really
Had
Humbled
Down
Head
Over
Put
Opportunities
Past Couple
Point
Some
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Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I'll say "dude" or I'll say "bro," and people will laugh.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Drama
People
School
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I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Learning Experience
Mindset
Momentum
Good Experience Learning
Drama School
Experience Good Learning
Thief
Trip
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When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Admire
Careers
Decided
Drama
Drama School
Realized
Trained
Vocational
Whose
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I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Accepted
Please
Audition
Nearly
Dorm
Drama School
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I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Admire
Caring
Concern
Perceive
Time World Yourself
Limit
Too Much Time
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I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
New York
Real
Thinking
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When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Reflection
Shooting
Ben
Journals
Thief
Wash
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I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Ambition
Pride
Riot
Trajectory
Work Done Always
Work Always Done
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It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Conviction
Crucial
Danger
Humanist
Humbling
Mark
Steam
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I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Common Goal
Hey
Work Together People
Bond
Two People
You Guys
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I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Journey
Brother
Grew
Important Things
Mature
Older Brother
Real
Sibling
Accept
Anything Else
Between
Bond
Else
Expect
Older
Unlike
Hoped
The Most Important
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Brother
Older Brother
Male
Drawn
Institutionalized
Nor
Physical
Young Men
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