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I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 10
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Model
Singer
Malaga
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
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Success
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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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Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.
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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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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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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
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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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You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.
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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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[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.
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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 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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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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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.
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I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
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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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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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