Antonio Banderas Quotes
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
