Benicio Del Toro Quotes

United States, Actor
February 19, 1967

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor. He won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of the jaded but morally upright police officer Javier Rodriguez in the film Traffic (2000). Del Toro's performance as ex-con turned religious fanatic in despair, Jack Jordan, in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003) earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a second Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination and a BAFTA Awards nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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.

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- Up
- Movie
- Grease
There are a lot of good actresses out there.

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- Good

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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- Good
- Business
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

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- Guy
- Die
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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- Latin
Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Benicio Del Toro
- World
- Black
You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

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- Bad
- Missing

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

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- Believe
- Why
- Movie
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

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- Time
- Work
I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

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- People
- Sports
- Vision
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

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- Dad
- Lawyer
- Uncle
I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

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The iPod has changed all that because sometimes I listen to an album from beginning to end, but now I put the stuff on shuffle and have the iPod tell me what I'm listening to, especially if I'm working out.

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- Beginning
- Listening

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

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- Bad
- Pretty
- Challenge
I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

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