Benicio Del Toro famous 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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Theatre #Actors #Middle

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Kids #Pet #Littles

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Littles #Oscars #Tomorrow

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Thinking #Done

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Sports #Men #Thinking

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Stars #Believe #Attention

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Character #Vices #Roles

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Guy #Roles #Firsts

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Believe #Acting #Green

I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#People #Judging #Support

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. Does that make any sense?
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Reading #Mean #Thinking

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Sleep #Night #Opposites

You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Dark #Hair #Skins

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Islands #People #Forever

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Thinking #Feet #Order

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Basketball #Play #Challenges

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Thinking #Goal #Interesting

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Winning #Play #Giving

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Kind #Film

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Sports #Clock

Some roles have been with me forever
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Forever #Roles

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#School #Eye #Dark

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Identity #Brando #Nicholson

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Kids #Grease #Firsts

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Latin #Latino #Filmmaker

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Cousin #Uncles #Dad

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Fans #Doe #Might

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Thinking #Giving #Oscars

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Black #Lagoons #Creatures

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Thinking #Missing #Serial Killer

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Pressure #Honest #Being Honest

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Kids #Years #Bags

License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Movie #Bond Movie #Great Bond

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Movie #Writing #Thinking

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Beach #College #Careers

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Gun #Knives #Guy

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Reading #Thinking #Choices

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#School #Eye #Dark

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Black And White #World #Sometimes

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Blessing #Choices #Way

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.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Guy #Monsters #Nightmare