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Brendan Fraser

(1968) Film Actor United States

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Brendan Fraser is a film actor from the United States.

Quick Facts About Brendan Fraser

Born: December 3, 1968
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Spouse: Afton Smith

About Brendan Fraser

Brendan James Fraser is an American and Canadian actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors (1994) and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged as a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy films (1999–present). He took on dramatic roles in Gods and Monsters (1998), The Quiet American (2002), and Crash (2004), and further fantasy roles in Bedazzled (2000), Inkheart and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Canada's Walk of Fame Romy Critics' Choice Awards

Quotes by Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Swings

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Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

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I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in

Rock n roll

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It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column…

Actors

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As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

I pray

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George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying…

Buying

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The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

Audience

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I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.

Bragging

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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Audience

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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

Choice

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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world

Circumstances

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When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches…

Actors

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You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an…

Approach

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I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that…

Cds

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I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

Appreciate

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It's a tale that I believe ultimately speaks of good parenting and what it means to honor one's parents.

Parenting

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I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Believe

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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent…

Attention

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I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore,…

Cinema

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I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

Approach

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Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

About

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While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and…

Actors

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The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because…

Cutting

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I don't take myself too seriously. I think if you can treat comedy as normal then inevitably you will get more laughs.…

Adventure

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I guess what you would define as darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. And I…

Darkness

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