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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.

Benicio Del Toro

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
Some roles have been with me forever
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Beens Forever Roles
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
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
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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Choices Reading Thinking
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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Kids Littles Pet
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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Character Roles Vices
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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Dark Eye School
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’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 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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Giving Oscar Thinking
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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Guy Monster Nightmare
I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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Black Sometimes White World
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
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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Acting Believe Green
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

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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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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