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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.
- Ben Foster
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#Family
#Learn
#Soldier
#Warrior
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
#Angry
#Dad
#Life
#Look
#Me
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.
- Ben Foster
#Dialogue
#Film
#Forty
#Still
#Waiting
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.
- Ben Foster
#Freedom
#Joy
#Life
#Me
#Myself
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.
- Ben Foster
#Always
#Everything
#Funny
#Think
#Three
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.
- Ben Foster
#Film
#Good
#People
#Respect
#Sometimes
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.
- Ben Foster
#Conflict
#Down
#Drama
#Get
#Know
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.
- Ben Foster
#Art
#Experience
#Fear
#Live
#Way
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.
- Ben Foster
#Learning
#Myself
#Solitude
#Way
#Work
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.
- Ben Foster
#Better
#Blessing
#Feel
#Understand
#Work
I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
- Ben Foster
#Being
#Just
#Like
#Myself
#Shy
The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
- Ben Foster
#Ability
#Hard Work
#Rest
#Work
#Young
I would come home from school every Wednesday, order pizza, and watch 'X-Files.' I was devoted.
- Ben Foster
#Every
#Home
#Order
#Pizza
#School
I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
- Ben Foster
#Irony
#Love
#Real
#Sacrifice
#Sarcasm
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.
- Ben Foster
#Attention
#Light
#Me
#Meditation
#Power
#Way
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.
- Ben Foster
#Experience
#Failure
#Gift
#Yourself
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