Wes Bentley Quotations

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

It's a bad thing just to play off your looks. People have given me a chance to transform myself. That's what I love about acting.

Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon plays-not that they're bad, but you can only take so much.

I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.