Top 40 Quotes by 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.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

I'm a slow reader.

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.

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.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

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

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'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.