I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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.
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Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he’d get back to me next year.
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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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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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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Some roles have been with me forever
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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 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.
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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.
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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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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 won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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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’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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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?”
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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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