Antonio Banderas Quotes
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.
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The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
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The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
