Top 30 Benicio Del Toro Quotes

The iPod has changed all that because sometimes I listen to an album from beginning to end, but now I put the stuff on shuffle and have the iPod tell me what I’m listening to, especially if I’m working out.

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.

I’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

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.

I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

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.

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.

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

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

‘License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

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.

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.

I mean I like most of the films that I’ve seen that I’ve been in.

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.

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

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.

I trained as a theater 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.

There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

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.

I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.

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.

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.

As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.

I’m just an actor.