I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
BENICIO DEL TOROI guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
BENICIO DEL TOROI don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
BENICIO DEL TOROMy 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.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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.
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 TOROSome roles have been with me forever
BENICIO DEL TOROThere’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
BENICIO DEL TOROI’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.
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 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’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
BENICIO DEL TOROWhen I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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 TOROVillains 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.
BENICIO DEL TOROI 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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