Benicio Del Toro

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

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

There are a lot of good actresses out there. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”