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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

Topics: Been Call Control Driver Driving Economical Everything Gonna Growing Growing Up Hold Holding Holding On Learning Lock Myself Part Releasing Solitude Tightly Trying Up Way Wheel Work Would You Your

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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.

~Ben Foster

Topics: Attention Battery Been Concentration Down Ends Giant Instinct Intuition Light Me Meditation Nap Out Outside Power Racket Run Strong Transcendental Turning Up Way

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

~Ben Foster

Topics: Could Irony Love Real Root Sacrifice Sarcasm Sick Sincerely Things

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The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.

~Ben Foster

Topics: Ability Actor Around Burns Far Get Hard Hard Work Heat Magnetism Natural Only Out Rest Work You Young Young Actors

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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

Topics: Cause Experience Fail Failure Gift Give Greatest Greatest Gift Just Okay Possibly Richness You Your Yourself

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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

Topics: Art Away Defy Distance Experience Fear Identify Live Meditation Ourselves Present Put Source Spirituality Them Things Thought Way Web

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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

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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

Topics: Always Cast Creative Crew Dig Done Film Good Good Film Happen Just Line Lot Making More Paramount People Producer Producers Production Respect Run Sometimes Stuff Team Than Who Without You

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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

Topics: Account Available Better Blessing Drawn Every Everyone Feel Get Job Lot Maybe Paying Rent Take Things Understand Variables Want Who Work You

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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

Topics: Always Everything Funny Heroes Kinda Ridiculous Robin Robin Williams Sort Think Three Were Williams I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 29th, 1980

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