Antonio Banderas Quotes

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
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

Beautiful, Mean, Country

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.
Antonio Banderas

Game, Try, Means

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

Food, Sexy, Different

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

Understand, America, Learned

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

Love, Starting, Everywhere

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

Sexy, May, Happen

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

Morning, Youth, Read

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

Women, End, Someone

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

Character, Found, Worked

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

Life, Movies, Forget

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

Everything, Thought, After

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

Bad, Words, Country

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

Life, Him, Actor

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

Person, Anyone, Characters

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
Antonio Banderas

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

Mind, Everything, Older

Films should be for everybody.
Antonio Banderas

Everybody, Films

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

Strong, Needs, Cruel

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

Art, Acting, General

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

Confidence, Put, Lucky

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

Time, Someone, Depressed

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

Movies, Difficult, Cry

I divide my time badly.
Antonio Banderas

Time, Badly, Divide

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

Morning, Run, Half

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Actor

Born: August 10, 1960

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