Benicio Del Toro Best Quotes & Sayings

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. — Benicio Del Toro

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble. — Benicio Del Toro

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. — Benicio Del Toro

I'm a slow reader. — Benicio Del Toro

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. — 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

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. — 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 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

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

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 said he'd get back to me next year. — Benicio Del Toro

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. — Benicio Del Toro

Some roles have been with me forever — Benicio Del Toro

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

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work. — 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. — Benicio Del Toro

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. — Benicio Del Toro

Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy. — Caroline Rhea

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. — Benicio Del Toro

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. — Benicio Del Toro

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. — 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

I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another. — 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

It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling. — 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

I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.' — Dave Bautista

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

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

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 under my eyes, deal with it. — Benicio Del Toro

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. — Benicio Del Toro