Benicio Del Toro Quotes
I trained as a theatre 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.
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
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.
Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
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.
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.
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.
I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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.
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.
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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.
There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.
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.
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.
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.
