Antonio Banderas Quotes

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.

This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.

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.

We're living in hard times.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

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.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

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.

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

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.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

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.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

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.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Films should be for everybody.

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.

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 Almodóvar.

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.

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

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.

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

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.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

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.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

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.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

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.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

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.

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.

I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

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.

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.

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.