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 TOROI 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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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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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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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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When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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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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Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula – you’d kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
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Some roles have been with me forever
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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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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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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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Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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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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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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