When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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More Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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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’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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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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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.
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I’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.
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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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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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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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Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he’d get back to me next year.
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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’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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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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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 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?
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