When you start to become a movie star it’s easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That’s why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
BENICIO DEL TOROMy 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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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 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 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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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’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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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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