Benicio Del Toro Quotes
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
-
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
-
I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
-
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
-
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
-
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
-
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
-
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
-
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
-
Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
-
You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
-
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
-
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
-
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
-
In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
-
I believe clothing tell a story.
-
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
-
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
-
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
-
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
-
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
-
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
-
It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.
-
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
