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 TOROWhen some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don’t know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.
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It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
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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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I’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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The 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.
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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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Some roles have been with me forever
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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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When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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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.
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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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To be honest with you, I’d rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
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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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