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 TOROYou 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 TOROWhen I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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 TOROSome roles have been with me forever
BENICIO DEL TOROAm I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’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 TOROThe 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 TOROYou 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 TOROIt’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 TOROI 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 TOROI’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 TOROLicense to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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 TOROI’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
BENICIO DEL TOROWell 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.
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