Latest Antonio Banderas Quotes from Interviews

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• It is just a very freaky experience when you go to the movie theater and you see it for the first time. In close-up you see those eyes. There are little touches here and there that I recognize as myself. The process is fun.

  Antonio Banderas

  Fun, Eye, Here And There

  "Mike Myers and Antonio Banderas Talk Shrek the Third!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 11, 2007.

• As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.

  Antonio Banderas

  Ideas, Different, Lines

  "Mike Myers and Antonio Banderas Talk Shrek the Third!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 11, 2007.

• Sometimes I am just playing the character. I will move out of the way of the microphone, and they will have to tell me. Because I am moving around a lot. I am performing the cat. The animators look for that material, to see if they can put it back into the movie.

  Antonio Banderas

  Moving, Character, Cat

  "Mike Myers and Antonio Banderas Talk Shrek the Third!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 11, 2007.

• Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.

  Antonio Banderas

  Pain, Creating, Littles

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE SKIN I LIVE IN and PUSS IN BOOTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2011.

• Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.

  Antonio Banderas

  Light, Play, Laughing

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE SKIN I LIVE IN and PUSS IN BOOTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2011.

• There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they worked very hard to have their kids go to universities. Well, those kids came out and they are now doctors and architects, or they are on the Supreme Court. That has a reflection in Hollywood. So, we are actually very proud that our characters are Latinos, and I think it's good for diversity and cultural interaction.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, Character, Kids

  "Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek PUSS IN BOOTS Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 28, 2011.

• I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

  Antonio Banderas

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Enemy

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

• You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.

  Antonio Banderas

  Soul, Aspect, Changed

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

• I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.

  Antonio Banderas

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

• Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.

  Antonio Banderas

  Father, Perfect, Secret

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

• People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.

  Antonio Banderas

  Couple, People, Trying

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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

  Antonio Banderas

  Age, Connections, Strange

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk the Expendables 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

• 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 Almodóvar, 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Hero, Warrior, Careers

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

• 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?"

  Antonio Banderas

  Running, Kind, Meter

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Sports, Fighting, Thinking

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Shapes, Action, Craziness

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Trying, Directors, Different

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Talking, People, Personality

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk the Expendables 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Ideas, Never Change, Wanted

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

• 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.

  Antonio Banderas

  Stars, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com