Top 45 Antonio Banderas Quotes

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, ‘Am I a sex symbol?’ Then I go back to bed again. It’s stupid to think that way.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

One thing I have clear is that I don’t want to work for money anymore.

We’re living in hard times.

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.

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.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we’re not fashionable anymore. We’re here to stay.

I divide my time badly.

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it’s done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

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.

I couldn’t be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I’ve done many different movies in many different contexts.

I’ve never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don’t understand that it’s part of being in show business, then I’d better go work in a bank.

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

I don’t like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I’ve never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

I think I’m a romantic person, yeah.

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people – producers, directors, people who buy tickets – who put confidence in me.

Everything changes as you get older – your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

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.

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

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

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.

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.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

I long to get back into theater.

The man who doesn’t want anything is invincible.

I’m not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don’t put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

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.

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I’m still a promising actor. It’s better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that’s kept me young. I haven’t gotten to any peak yet.

I think we are realising that governments can’t govern us any more.

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.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I don’t believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

I did my first movie, ‘The Mambo Kings,’ in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.