Top 45 Antonio Banderas Quotes

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

Films should be for everybody.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

People are not patient anymore.

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.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I’ve done many different movies in many different contexts.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

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.

Everything changes as you get older – your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

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

This may sound a little harsh, but I don’t care about my career. Really, I don’t like actors who are always planning what they’re going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they’ve created. To me, that’s almost like an attack of narcissism.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

I long to get back into theater.

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

I couldn’t be with someone who is depressed all the time.

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.

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

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.

I remember in ‘Law of Desire,’ where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It’s interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can’t pardon you for kissing one.

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

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don’t understand that it’s part of being in show business, then I’d better go work in a bank.

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

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

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

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.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 – and it’s kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, ‘What is going on there?’

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

I think I’m a romantic person, yeah.

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.

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

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’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.

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’m still a promising actor. It’s better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that’s kept me young. I haven‘t gotten to any peak yet.

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.

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.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

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.

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.

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.