Hopefully, 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 TOROWhen you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
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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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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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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.
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I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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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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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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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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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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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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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
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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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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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