Benicio Del Toro on brando
Benicio Del Toro40 quotes“I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.”
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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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro I’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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 ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
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