Benicio Del Toro Quotes

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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…
• Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He…
• Some roles have been with me forever
• 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…
• I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
• 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.
• 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…
• You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
• License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
• 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…
• 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…
• I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
• Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

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