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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.

Benicio Del Toro

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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Movie Thinking Writing
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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Beach Careers College
There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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Filmmaker Latin Latino
I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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Brando Identity
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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Giving Ideas Men
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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Bags Kids Years
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
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Forever Islands People
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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Men Sports Thinking
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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Night Opposite Sleep
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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Judging People Support
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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Gun Guy Knives
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I’m at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
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Goal Interesting Thinking
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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Littles Oscars Tomorrow
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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Firsts Grease Kids
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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Cousin Dad Uncles
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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Dark Eye School
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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Blessing Choices Way
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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Dark Eyes School
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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Careers Drug People
Some roles have been with me forever
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Beens Forever Roles
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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Mean Reading Thinking
To be honest with you, I’d rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
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Deadline Honest Pressure
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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Done Knows Thinking
I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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Black Sometimes White World
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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Film Kind Like Most
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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Basketball Inspirational Play
I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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Doe Fans might

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