Benicio Del Toro on license
Benicio Del Toro40 quotes“License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.”
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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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro Regarding 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 ToroBenicio Del Toro Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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 ToroBenicio Del Toro 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?”
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro 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.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.
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Yasmine CheyenneYasmine Cheyenne Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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