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.
BENICIO DEL TOROTo 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 don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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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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.
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You 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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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You 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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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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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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