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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.

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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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I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
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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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I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
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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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I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
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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.
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I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
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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.
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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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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.
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In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
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People are not patient anymore.
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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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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.
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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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