License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
BENICIO DEL TOROLicense to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
BENICIO DEL TOROWhen you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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 TOROMy goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I’m at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
BENICIO DEL TOROThe 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 TOROThere’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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?
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.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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 TOROWhen 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 TOROI’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’ve played drug dealers, all my life. I’ve made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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 TORORegarding 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 TOROI’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.
BENICIO DEL TOROBefore I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
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