Benicio Del Toro

And also, you would find yourself alone, which is also healthy.

I think in Puerto Rico, I had my posse, my friends, and I was never alone.

And here in Pennsylvania, for the first time, it was like... And you start looking in, and you start having different thoughts, and new ideas might come in, and it was healthy that way.

And I quickly made friends, and, you know, I made a lot of friends, and played basketball, and made a lot of friends there.

I had, you know...

You know, I spoke English before I went to the school, but I had a thick accent.

But playing basketball created a language right there, and I think music also.

You know, it's interesting because...

The first time I ever acted in Spanish was in traffic.

I mean, I did say lines in Spanish in Basquiat.

And I might have said something in Spanish in a James Bond movie I did called License to Kill when I was 20.

But for the most part, you know, the whole ethnic thing was not out until...

I did traffic and suddenly the ethnic thing, the Hispanic, helped me create a character and helped my career and changed my career, really.

And it was traffic.

So it's funny because, you know,

When I was going out for movies early on, I would be asked to change my name because I would be limited.

It was an issue that you would be limited to play Latino roles, right?

And so you went against it because you'd be limited to stereotypes.

And at some point, I said, bring it on.

Because...