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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.

Benicio Del Toro

When 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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Night Opposite Sleep
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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Basketball Inspirational Play
I’m not saying I’m a writer, but I’ve been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
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Movie Thinking Writing
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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Bags Kids Years
There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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Filmmaker Latin Latino
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.
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Giving Oscar Thinking
Some roles have been with me forever
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Beens Forever Roles
License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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Bond License Movie
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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Character Roles Vices
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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Choices Reading Thinking
My 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.
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Cousin Dad Uncles
I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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Brando Identity
I’ve had people ask me: ‘How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?’ What they don’t understand is that I’m in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who’s on screen. I’m not judging them one way or another.
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Judging People Support
It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don’t know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it’s a great feeling.
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Actor Cameras Feelings
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.
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Acting Believe Green
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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Gun Guy Knives

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