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 TOROTo 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.
More Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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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.
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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’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand 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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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.
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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.
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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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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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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.
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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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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?
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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.
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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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