Antonio Banderas Quotes
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
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I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
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My health and my family are the core of my being.
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
