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Antonio Banderas, born on August 10, 1960, is a renowned Spanish film actor. He is known for his outstanding performances in a variety of international blockbusters, such as 'The Matador', 'Love Letters', and the 'Mission: Impossible' series. Banderas has a significant influence in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema and is highly regarded as an international actor.

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“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.”

Knows Men Difficult Cry Recognise

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

Running Hours Half Morning Yoga Every Morning Saunas

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“I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.”

Home House Half Millions Dollars Musical Studios Fantastic Toys Equipment Million Dollars

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“I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.”

Country Citizens Citizenship Renounce

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“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.”

Feels Littles Sometimes Home Kids Guilty Little Time

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

Thinking Want Mind Problem Body Your Body Houston

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“I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.”

Thinking Way Looks Asks Sex Morning Stupid Bed Wake Up Mirrors Symbols Every Morning Sex Symbol

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“I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Littles My Heart Normal Faster Hypochondriac

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“It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.”

Years Country Money Happened Honor Years Ago Lifetime Privilege Pockets No Money Saving Money

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

Knows Years Stills Pay Know How Spain

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

Different Language Different Languages

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“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.”

White Morning Youth Drink Eternal China Tea Expensive Silver Emperor Needles Buckets Eternal Youth

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“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.”

Want Ends Might Mother Guy Dangerous Daughter Twenties Like Me My Daughter Terrified

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“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.”

Years Couple Hollywood My Thoughts Latino Fashionable

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“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.”

People Feels Littles I Can Bigs America Stars Behinds Attention Nice Planets Bunch Spain Fanatics Very Nice

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Different Soul Done Purpose Careers Honesty Type Dignity Entertainment Complexity Exploring Human Soul Frivolous

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“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.”

Mean Fashionable Integrated American Society

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“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 Almodóvar.”

People Knows Done Happens Dies Finals Scripts Whatever Happens Almodovar

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“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”

Country America Normal Diversity Wicked Sense Of Humor

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“I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.”

Ifs Want Stupid Offers Deserve More Money Not Stupid

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“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.”

“Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.”

Way Want Different Careers Direct Theatre Going To Work Different Directions

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“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.”

People Thinking Kids Certain Saws Effects Older People

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“I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.”

Should Looks Ideas Games Accepting Careers Audience Plans Fans Worried Game Plan

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“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Gone England Accents

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“No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.”

Years Two Speak Language Hours Minutes Stage Mets Singing Years Ago Theater Proof Nine Get Better Nine Years Time Goes By

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

Way Littles Attention Knowing Crisis Details Partners Pay Attention Little Things Great Love

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

Said Girl Ready Kissing First Kiss This Girl Dizzy My First Kiss

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“In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.”

Life Sex Sleep Essentials Wine Good Life Spain Good Food Good Wine Good Sleep Good Sex

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“My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.”

Littles Sometimes Bits Change Common Talking Example Couple Little Bit Folks Spain Verbs Adjectives Common Things I'm Back Spanish And English

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“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.”

People Knows Looks Country Values Teach Knowing Bad Word

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“I divide my time badly.”

My Time Divides

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“I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.”

Believe Kind Don't Believe Fundamentalism

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

Thinking May Loses Scene

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“I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.”

Writing Reading Caught Bubbles Caught Up Reading Writing

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

Thinking Done Character Guy Gay

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“I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.”

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“I long to get back into theater.”

Long Theater Get Back

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“I suppose that I am ambitious.”

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“I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.”

Thinking Persons Yeah Romantic Person

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“I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.”

Thinking World Can Do Comedy Serious Serious Things

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“I try to teach my kids to be open.”

Trying Kids Teach

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

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

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“I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.”

Real Play Stories Couple Real Life Take Me

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“In my personal life, I am very contemplative.”

Personal Life Contemplative

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“Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.”

Sometimes Difficult Talent Fantastic

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

Want Clear One Thing

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“People are not patient anymore.”

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“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.”

Giving Character Kids Beautiful Voice Theater Opening Bumps Geese Movie Theater Cracking Up

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About the Author

Born: August 10, 1960
Known for: Film actor
Quotes: 101

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