Zitat des Tages von Benicio Del Toro:
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.
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
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 guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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.
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.
I'm a slow reader.
I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
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.
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.
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.
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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.
Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.
'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
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.
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 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.