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 TOROBefore 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.
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I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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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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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.
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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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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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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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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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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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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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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.
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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I’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
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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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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.
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