Antonio Banderas Quotes
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
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I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
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A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.
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I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.
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I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
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I divide my time badly.
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I suppose that I am ambitious.
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I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
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Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
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Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
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This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
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I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
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The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.