I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
BENICIO DEL TOROI won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
More Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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Before 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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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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When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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There’s something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, “Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?”
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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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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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Some roles have been with me forever
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My 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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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.
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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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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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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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’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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