Antonio Banderas Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

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

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?

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.

You have to work with people you really love.

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

I suppose that I am ambitious.

It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Films should be for everybody.

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

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

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 try to teach my kids to be open.