Antonio Banderas Quotes
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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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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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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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 have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.
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I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
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My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
