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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.

Benicio Del Toro

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
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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Dark Hair Skins Tomorrow
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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Forever Islands People
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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Firsts Guy Roles
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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Blessing Choices Way
I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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Doe Fans might
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
I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Black Creature Lagoon
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
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 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.
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Actor Middle Pretend Theatre Traffic
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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Kids Littles Pet
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
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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Done Knows Thinking
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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Killer Missing Serial Thinking

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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