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.
BENICIO DEL TOROWell when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he’d get back to me next year.
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I 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?
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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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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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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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Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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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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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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When you start to become a movie star it’s easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That’s why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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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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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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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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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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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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