Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
BENICIO DEL TOROIt 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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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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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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 guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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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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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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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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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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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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Some roles have been with me forever
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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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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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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 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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