Benicio Del Toro on choices
Benicio Del Toro40 quotes“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 don’t think I could be a foot soldier. I don’t know if I could take orders too good. I’m a little lazy.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It’s good for business.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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 ToroBenicio Del Toro Regarding 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 ToroBenicio Del Toro License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro There’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 ToroBenicio Del Toro Before 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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?
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro It’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.
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Bea ArthurBea Arthur Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated – defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
Banana YoshimotoBanana Yoshimoto Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
Barbara CorcoranBarbara Corcoran We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. PoweB. W. Powe I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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