Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
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When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.
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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
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My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
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I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
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I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
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Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.
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I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
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As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.
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'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
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It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
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I'm a slow reader.
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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
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You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
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I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
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It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
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I'm just an actor.
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I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.
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To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.