Quotes by Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas

[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.

Age

Connections

Strange

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.

Couple

Hollywood

Years

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.

Country

Knowing

People

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

Bigger Than Life

Encounters

Personality

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.

Creating

Littles

Pain

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.”

Brother

Father

Real

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.

Acting

Art

Littles

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.

Directors

Lucky

People

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.

Careers

Hero

Warrior

I divide my time badly.

Divides

My Time

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Accents

Acting

Action

Actors

Age

Agnostic

Ambitious

America

Art

Aspect

Beach

Believe

Bigger Than Life

Brother

Careers

Cat

Change

Changed

Character

Citizens

Citizenship

Connections

Country

Couple

Craziness

Creating

Details

Different

Different Languages

Directors

Diversity

Divides

Doing Nothing

Don't Believe

Encounters

Enemy

England

Father

Feelings

Fighting

First Kiss

Games

Gay

Girl

Gone

Government

Great Love

Guy

Halloween

Hard

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Quotes by Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas

[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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 divide my time badly.

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