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. ”