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.

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

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.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

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

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?

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

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

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.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

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?'

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