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Benicio Del Toro

I 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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Giving Oscar Thinking
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
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Kids Littles Pet
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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Dark Eyes School
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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Judging People Support
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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Killer Missing Serial Thinking
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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Feet Order Thinking
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
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Cousin Dad Uncles
There’s something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, “Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?”
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Giving Ideas Men
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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Firsts Guy Roles
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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Character Roles Vices
Some roles have been with me forever
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Beens Forever Roles
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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Gun Guy Knives
I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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Brando Identity
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
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Littles Oscars Tomorrow
I 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.
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Blessing Choices Way
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.
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Giving Play Winning

I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

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