Ben Foster

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. ”

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. ”

My job is all about defending the people that I play. ”

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice. ”

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. ”

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. ”