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 TOROI won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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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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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 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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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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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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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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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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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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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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I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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I’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
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Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That’s probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
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I don’t think I could be a foot soldier. I don’t know if I could take orders too good. I’m a little lazy.
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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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