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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

License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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Bond License Movie
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.
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Actor Middle Pretend Theatre Traffic
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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Actor Cameras Feelings
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
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
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
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 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’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
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
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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Killer Missing Serial Thinking
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 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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Feet Order 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
When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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Clock Sports Ticking
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

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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