Quotes from Hector Elizondo

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Every day is Valentine's Day! I'm a hopeless romantic.

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.