"Because actors don’t get to pick movies; movies pick the actors." ― Benicio Del Toro Topic(s): Movies More From Benicio Del Toro "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." "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." "The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy." More In Movies "I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look."― Delta Burke "I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies."― Jennifer Hudson "The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money."― Ben Affleck