"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 "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 "If I was peanut butter, I'd be a rich man." 1997 Chat transcript "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 made him feel the struggles of women and weight) Telegraph Magazine

"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 on Way of the Gun "What I learned is that acting must consume you. When I act, everything else ceases to exist. " Calgery Sun “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'm always afraid about the comparison to Mr. M.B. He's the Picasso of acting." The Village Voice