Antonio Banderas Quotes

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Antonio Banderas

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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

Jack Straw
- Up
- Children
- Mother
It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

Sam Smith
- Good
- Music
- Job
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

Viggo Mortensen
- Book
- Sometimes
- Stubborn
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai
- Reason
- Poet
- Himself
My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.

Nadia Bjorlin
- Music
- Father
- Me
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

Harold Washington