I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
BENICIO DEL TOROI won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
BENICIO DEL TOROYou 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 TOROI 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.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’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.
BENICIO DEL TOROHopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That’s probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
BENICIO DEL TOROTo 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.
BENICIO DEL TOROIt 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.
BENICIO DEL TOROWhen you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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 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.
BENICIO DEL TOROIt’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.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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?
BENICIO DEL TOROAm I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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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