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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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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'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
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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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There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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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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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I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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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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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 mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
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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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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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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'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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I'm a slow reader.
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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 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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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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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.
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I'm just an actor.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.