I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
BENICIO DEL TOROWhen 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 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 TOROI’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.
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 TOROAm I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
BENICIO DEL TOROMy 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 TOROI won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
BENICIO DEL TOROBefore I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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 TOROThere’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?”
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’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’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 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 TOROWhen you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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