Benicio Del Toro Quotes

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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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  Theatre, Actors, Middle

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

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  Black And White, World, Sometimes

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• You 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.

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  Dark, Hair, Skins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• I'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.

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  Careers, People, Drug

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Gun, Knives, Guy

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• I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

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  Identity, Brando, Nicholson

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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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  School, Eye, Dark

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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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  Fans, Doe, Might

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• To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

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  Pressure, Honest, Deadline

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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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  Thinking, Missing, Serial Killer

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Some roles have been with me forever

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  Forever, Roles, Has Beens

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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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  Guy, Roles, Firsts

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I 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.

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  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

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  Kids, Pet, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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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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  People, Judging, Support

  "Benicio Del Toro Storms Out of 'Che' Interview". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2009.

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• When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

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  Sports, Clock Is Ticking, Clock

  "Benicio Del Toro on Savages and Licence to Kill". Interview with Fred Topel, www.craveonline.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

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  School, Eye, Dark

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Thinking, Order, Feet

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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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  Feelings, Cameras, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• 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, Uncles, Dad

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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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  Beach, College, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Character, Vices, Roles

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• I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

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  Kind, Film

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• I 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.

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  Inspirational, Basketball, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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