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.”

“I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 one thing and take my time to do the other one.”

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

“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.”