American - Actor | October 29, 1980 -
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.
Ben Foster
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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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I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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My job is all about defending the people that I play.
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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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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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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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