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Up until the time I was 31 yea...

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

Antonio Banderas 151 quotes

When you work in a different l...

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

Antonio Banderas 151 quotes

I drink a bucket of white tea ...

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 151 quotes

I wouldn't want my daughters t...

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 151 quotes

A couple of years after I arri...

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.

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I'm not such a big star. I am ...

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

Antonio Banderas 151 quotes

Listen, I think movies serve m...

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Antonio Banderas 151 quotes

We are now integrated into Ame...

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.

Antonio Banderas 151 quotes

Whatever happens in my life fr...

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 Almodovar.

Antonio Banderas 151 quotes

When you go to a movie with so...

When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find, exactly. You don't know if it's going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this guy - that's true... It's worse, actually, when you have people around you that are very hungry to obtain something that they never had. Success.

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I had an idea and I wanted jus...

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.

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If you become very self-consci...

If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.

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I discovered very soon, especi...

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.

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It is very difficult to follow...

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.

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You have to be in good shape, ...

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.

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I'm in my 60s now, and just ru...

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?'

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I think I am good in the depar...

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.

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[Pablo]Picasso was born in my ...

[Pablo]Picasso was born in my hometown, in MГЎlaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left MГЎlaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

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I am not an action hero. That ...

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 AlmodГіvar, 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.

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Is it a man walking on the bea...

Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.

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