Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
BENICIO DEL TOROBefore I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
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 won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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 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 TOROWhen I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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 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 TOROSome roles have been with me forever
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 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 TOROWhen you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
BENICIO DEL TOROBefore I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
BENICIO DEL TOROI think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I’m not talking about acting or anything like that, I’m talking about people I admire, whether it’s a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.
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 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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