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In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 10
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Model
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Malaga
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
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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.
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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 don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
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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'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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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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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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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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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 think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.”
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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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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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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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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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This girl said Yes when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.
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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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