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.
BENICIO DEL TOROHopefully, 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.
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 deal with failure – strike, strike, strike – all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way – your hair is too dark, you’re too ugly for the part, your audition wasn’t good.
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 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 TOROBefore I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
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 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 TOROThere’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
BENICIO DEL TORORegarding 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.
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.
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 TOROWhen you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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 won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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