Banderas Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Banderas Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Films should be for everybody.— Antonio Banderas
Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.— Antonio Banderas
I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.— Antonio Banderas
It's about paying attention to the little things, the details ... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.— Antonio Banderas
I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.— Antonio Banderas
Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.— Antonio Banderas
Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.— Antonio Banderas
The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.— Antonio Banderas
It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.— Antonio Banderas
I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.— Antonio Banderas
If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.— Antonio Banderas
Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.— Antonio Banderas
I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.— Antonio Banderas
I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.— Antonio Banderas
People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.— Antonio Banderas
It was great having them around and I have to say pretty weird seeing them all grown up! Plus we have Jeremy Piven; and Ricky Gervais agreed to be in it and Antonio Banderas has a cameo in and that's a testament to Robert. He's such a good director and such a good guy. He gets everybody, because everyone wants to work with him.— Joel McHale
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.— Antonio Banderas
You have to work with people you really love.— Antonio Banderas
I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
In my personal life, I am very contemplative.— Antonio Banderas
Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.— Antonio Banderas
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.— Antonio Banderas
When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.— Antonio Banderas
I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.— Cote De Pablo
I divide my time badly.— Antonio Banderas
You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.— Antonio Banderas
I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.— Antonio Banderas
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.— Antonio Banderas
People are not patient anymore.— Antonio Banderas
I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.— Antonio Banderas
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.— Antonio Banderas
Sometimes I am just playing the character. I will move out of the way of the microphone, and they will have to tell me. Because I am moving around a lot. I am performing the cat. The animators look for that material, to see if they can put it back into the movie.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.— Antonio Banderas
I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.— Antonio Banderas
It is just a very freaky experience when you go to the movie theater and you see it for the first time. In close-up you see those eyes. There are little touches here and there that I recognize as myself. The process is fun.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
I suppose that I am ambitious.— Antonio Banderas
My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while ... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.— Antonio Banderas
You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'— Antonio Banderas
We're living in hard times.— Antonio Banderas
I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.— Antonio Banderas
You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
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
When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find, exactly. You don't know if it's going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this guy - that's true ... It's worse, actually, when you have people around you that are very hungry to obtain something that they never had. Success.— Antonio Banderas
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I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.— Antonio Banderas
Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.— Antonio Banderas
Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.— Antonio Banderas
If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.— Antonio Banderas
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.— Antonio Banderas
I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.— Antonio Banderas
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.— Antonio Banderas
I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"— Antonio Banderas
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.— Antonio Banderas
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.— Antonio Banderas
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.— Antonio Banderas
My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.— Kaya Scodelario
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.— Antonio Banderas
When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.— Antonio Banderas
Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.— Antonio Banderas
I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.— Antonio Banderas
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.— Antonio Banderas
I try to teach my kids to be open.— Antonio Banderas
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.— Antonio Banderas
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.— Antonio Banderas
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.— Antonio Banderas
The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.— Antonio Banderas
The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.— Dev Patel
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in ... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.— Antonio Banderas
I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.— Antonio Banderas
According to this, it's not the Twelve that is going to be the undoing of the Daughter of Light, but the Thirteenth Warrior." "Antonio Banderas is going to be my undoing? I'm rife with anticipation.— Darynda Jones
No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.— Antonio Banderas
I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.— Antonio Banderas
I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.— Marilyn Manson
In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.— Antonio Banderas
I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.— Antonio Banderas
Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.— Antonio Banderas
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.— Antonio Banderas
I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.— Antonio Banderas
I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.— Antonio Banderas
I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.— Antonio Banderas
Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.— Melanie Griffith
I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.— Antonio Banderas
As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.— Antonio Banderas
I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.— Antonio Banderas
This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.— Antonio Banderas
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.— Antonio Banderas
There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.— Antonio Banderas
I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.— Antonio Banderas
I long to get back into theater.— Antonio Banderas
I have to recognize that I am agnostic.— Antonio Banderas
To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.— Antonio Banderas
There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they worked very hard to have their kids go to universities. Well, those kids came out and they are now doctors and architects, or they are on the Supreme Court. That has a reflection in Hollywood. So, we are actually very proud that our characters are Latinos, and I think it's good for diversity and cultural interaction.— Antonio Banderas
