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"I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera"

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It is a deceptively plain sentence that gives away an entire philosophy of celebrity labor: not acting for a room, but for a machine that will replay you forever. When Brendan Fraser says, "I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera", he is naming a pivot from old-school performance (stage, projection, immediate applause) to the intimacy of film, where the smallest adjustment in breath or eye-line can read as an emotional plot twist.

The phrasing matters. "I remember thinking" frames it as a formative private vow, the kind of career orientation that happens before agents and branding and the industry starts narrating your choices for you. And "work for" is the tell. It is humble, almost craft-union language. Not "be on camera" or "be famous", but serve the camera as a partner and an editor: hit the mark, trust the lens, let it do what it does best - translate internal life into something legible.

For an actor whose public story includes both blockbuster visibility and a long, punishing period of being treated as disposable IP, the line carries extra voltage. The camera gives; the camera takes. It can immortalize you, flatten you, fetishize you, remake you into a meme, then forget you until nostalgia circles back. Fraser's intent reads less like ambition and more like allegiance to the medium itself - an insistence that, beneath the noise of franchise cycles and tabloid arcs, there is still a job worth doing well.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fraser, Brendan. (2026, January 15). I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-remember-thinking-i-want-to-work-for-the-camera-141547/

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Fraser, Brendan. "I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-remember-thinking-i-want-to-work-for-the-camera-141547/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-remember-thinking-i-want-to-work-for-the-camera-141547/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Brendan Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Actor from USA.

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