Antonio Banderas Quotes

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

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

You have to work with people you really love.

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.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

People are not patient anymore.

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

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

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.

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

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I long to get back into theater.

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

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

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.

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

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.

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