Quotes by Benicio Del Toro

About Benicio Del Toro:

Benicio Monserrate Rafael Del Toro Sánchez is a American and Puerto Rican actor and film producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award for his role as Javier Rodríguez in Traffic (2000). He is also known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects (1995), Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Franky Four Fingers in Snatch (2000), Jackie Boy in Sin City (2005) and Che Guevara in Che (2008), a performance which garnered him the Best Actor Award both at the Cannes Film Festival in France, and at the Goya Awards in Spain. He portrayed The Collector in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy. He is the third Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
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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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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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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.

Benicio Del Toro

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

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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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There are a lot of good actresses out there.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBenicio Del Toro
  • DescriptionPuerto Rican actor and film producer
  • BornFebruary 19, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Film Director; Film Producer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Donostia Award