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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 10
Film Actor
Film Director
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Malaga
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
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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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Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
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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.
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We're living in hard times.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
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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.
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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.
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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
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In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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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.
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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.
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