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 TORORegarding 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.
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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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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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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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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’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 I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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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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It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don’t know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it’s a great feeling.
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It’s funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn’t plan out any huge career for myself.
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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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Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I 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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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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.
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