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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 10
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José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
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I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
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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.
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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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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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The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.
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I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 divide my time badly.
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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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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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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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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?
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I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
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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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