Quotes by Antonio Banderas

I wouldn’t want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I’m terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

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 I’m a romantic person, yeah.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.