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 TOROWhen I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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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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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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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don’t know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it’s a great feeling.
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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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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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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.
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I’ve played drug dealers, all my life. I’ve made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.
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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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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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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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?”
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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.
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