Words of
Benicio Del Toro
"My career went into a hole after Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas ,People might have seen what they saw onscreen
and subconciously people in the business might have taken what they saw literally.
I think people thought, He got fat. He got weird. His mumbling
increased tenfold. I was trying to do an interpretation of a masterpiece
of a book, and that's what the character was-an animal."Detour
"Before I was even in highschool, I had dark circles under my eyes.
Rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles
under my eyes, deal with it." Detour
"Cannes is like Las Vegas, The first day you win, the
second day you lose, and the third day they run you out of town."
On Cannes
"I think we were feeling at the time that we wanted to do
something more against what Hollywood puts out all the time.
There are lots of outlaws and mavericks out there, but we had a
romantic vision that we would do something different. Kinda like old school. "
BBC Online About Way of the Gun
"I just want to act but in this city it's all about image and managers
and publicity, somebody is always trying to change something about you.
When I first started acting, they wanted to change my name because
it sounded too Puerto Rican. They wanted to call me Benny Dell
or Benny Delaware or something. I am Puerto Rican. The can't change
that by changing my name. I told them they'd have to live
with my ethnicity or just not use me."
Calgery Sun
"What I learned is that acting must consume you. When I act,
everything else ceases to exist. "
Calgery Sun
If I was peanut butter, I'd be a rich man." 1997 Chat transcript
“One day, I woke up, looked myself in the mirror and I realized
I had won. And damn, I was feeling good all day long! Then
the next day, I wake up and I lost. I wasn’t even nominated
that day. And I’m down all f-ing day. I can’t do anything. But
it was all in my head-both of them. There’s that great Kipling poem,
‘If...’ You’ve gotta see those two impostors with the same face.
Just keep your head and do your thing.”
Msnbc Racalling a dream
"I always feel like a girl, when I was that heavy, it gave
me a sense of space and gravity. I paid attention to gravity.
Getting out of bed needed one percent more effort and my lower
back hurt. And, when you gain weight, people don't look at you
in the same way."
(on if weight gain mde him feel the struggles of women and weight)
Telegraph Magazine
I'm always afraid about the comparison to Mr. M.B.
He's the Picasso of acting."
The Village Voice
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