Benicio Del Toro quotes
Born
February 19, 1967, San Germán, Puerto Rico.
Occupation
Actor.
Benicio Del Toro is a Puerto Rican actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in a wide range of films. He first gained recognition for his role in the film Licence to Kill in 1989. In 2000, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Traffic.
Movies
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Sicario (2015)
Sicario Day of the Soldado (2018)
Snatch (2000)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Traffic (2000)
I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
– Benicio Del Toro
When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It’s like a sport.
– Benicio Del Toro
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
– Benicio Del Toro
I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
– Benicio Del Toro
I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
– Benicio Del Toro
There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
I’m just an actor.
– Benicio Del Toro
I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
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
Because actors don’t get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
Some roles have been with me forever.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
I’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
– Benicio Del Toro
‘License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
I’ve always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That’s how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
– Benicio Del Toro
I’m a slow reader.
– Benicio Del Toro
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.
– Benicio Del Toro