Films should be for everybody.
— Antonio Banderas
Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
I've done many different movies in many different contexts.
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.
You have to work with people you really love.
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'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.
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.
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.
I long to get back into theater.
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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.
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.
When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.
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.
People are not patient anymore.
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
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.
I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
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.
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
