Top 100 Toro's Quotes
#1. I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'
Dave Bautista
#2. The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun -
Guillermo Del Toro
#3. Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.
Benicio Del Toro
#4. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#5. There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.
Guillermo Del Toro
#6. It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
Benicio Del Toro
#7. Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
Guillermo Del Toro
#8. I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it's great, too.
Guillermo Del Toro
#9. For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
Guillermo Del Toro
#10. The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and try not to really think about the fact that they're not gonna be on this earth any longer, that they had an effect on you and your lives, and that's what you should take out.
Ray Toro
#12. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#13. There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"
Benicio Del Toro
#14. I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.
Guillermo Del Toro
#15. If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.
Carlos Mencia
#16. so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,
Guillermo Del Toro
#17. I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.
Guillermo Del Toro
#18. It's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
Guillermo Del Toro
#19. Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.
Ray Toro
#20. Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.
Ray Toro
#21. It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.
Ray Toro
#22. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#23. I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
Guillermo Del Toro
#24. There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
Guillermo Del Toro
#25. In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert ... if it's too loud, you're too old.
Guillermo Del Toro
#27. There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
Guillermo Del Toro
#28. We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
Guillermo Del Toro
#29. When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
Benicio Del Toro
#30. Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI - it's Radio-fucking-Shack.
Guillermo Del Toro
#31. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#32. There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
Benicio Del Toro
#33. When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
Guillermo Del Toro
#34. So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.
Guillermo Del Toro
#35. I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
Benicio Del Toro
#36. Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.
Gerard Way
#37. I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary!
Robin Atkin Downes
#38. The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.
Guillermo Del Toro
#39. There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
Guillermo Del Toro
#40. In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human or bloodsuckers - there's the ones that take it and the ones that hand it out. And this guy, man - this guy gives it out like fucking candy ...
Guillermo Del Toro
#41. If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.
Guillermo Del Toro
#42. I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.
Benicio Del Toro
#43. It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.
Benicio Del Toro
#44. When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal ... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
Guillermo Del Toro
#45. The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
Guillermo Del Toro
#46. I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
Guillermo Del Toro
#47. America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
Guillermo Del Toro
#48. You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.
Guillermo Del Toro
#50. Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.
Guillermo Del Toro
#51. God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.
Guillermo Del Toro
#52. It's important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren't the only ones to triumph in war.
Guillermo Del Toro
#53. Gus slowed in the darkened underground tunnel and started to unlock
Guillermo Del Toro
#54. What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA
Guillermo Del Toro
#55. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#56. Gus wasn't ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet, but he was ready to commit to the final leg of this journey.
Guillermo Del Toro
#57. An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?
Guillermo Del Toro
#58. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro
#59. There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
Guillermo Del Toro
#60. With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.
Guillermo Del Toro
#61. I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
Guillermo Del Toro
#62. To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
Benicio Del Toro
#63. I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
Patricia Riggen
#64. Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.
Ron Perlman
#65. I don't like him," said Gus. "Never did. Guy bitches about what he doesn't have, loses sight of what he does have, and is never happy. He's what you call a - what's that word?"
"Pessimist?" said Fet.
"Asshole," said Gus.
Guillermo Del Toro
#66. People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
Guillermo Del Toro
#68. For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
Guillermo Del Toro
#69. The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.
Guillermo Del Toro
#70. There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.
Guillermo Del Toro
#71. I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Guillermo Del Toro
#72. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
Guillermo Del Toro
#73. Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck
Guillermo Del Toro
#74. God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably ... I am actually a male!
Ray Toro
#75. I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
Guillermo Del Toro
#76. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."
Guillermo Del Toro
#77. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
Elizabeth George
#78. You'll meet her. She's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.
Guillermo Del Toro
#79. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#80. The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
Guillermo Del Toro
#81. I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.
Benicio Del Toro
#82. I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
Guillermo Del Toro
#83. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
#85. You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
Guillermo Del Toro
#86. In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
Guillermo Del Toro
#87. What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
Guillermo Del Toro
#88. I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
Benicio Del Toro
#89. When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
Guillermo Del Toro
#90. If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
Guillermo Del Toro
#92. I love the creation of these things - I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
Guillermo Del Toro
#93. Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.
Benicio Del Toro
#94. The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
Guillermo Del Toro
#95. But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
Guillermo Del Toro
#97. Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.
Charlie Day
#98. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
Guillermo Del Toro
#99. Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
Guillermo Del Toro
#100. 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.
Benicio Del Toro
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