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As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 10
Film Actor
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Malaga
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
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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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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.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
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I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
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I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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I divide my time badly.
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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
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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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People are not patient anymore.
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We're living in hard times.
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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.
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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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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.
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I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
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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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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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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.
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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.
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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 don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
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