Quotes from Antonio Banderas

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

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.

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.

People are not patient anymore.

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.

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

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

I suppose that I am ambitious.

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.

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

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

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?"

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.

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.

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

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

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

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

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.

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.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.