Antonio Banderas Quotes

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.

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.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

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

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

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

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

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.

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.

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 am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

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

[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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

I divide my time badly.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

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.

I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Films should be for everybody.

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

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.

We're living in hard times.

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.

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

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

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

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

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

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

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