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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.

This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

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

Antonio Banderas

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

Antonio Banderas

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

People are not patient anymore.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

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

Antonio Banderas

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

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

Antonio Banderas

Films should be for everybody.

Antonio Banderas

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.

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.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

Antonio Banderas

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

Antonio Banderas

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Antonio Banderas

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

Antonio Banderas

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.

Antonio Banderas

I long to get back into theater.

Antonio Banderas

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

Antonio Banderas

I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.

Antonio Banderas

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Antonio Banderas

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

Antonio Banderas