Quotes by Antonio Banderas

“He fights with the traditional Spanish weapon, the sword, and disdains the impersonal Anglo-Saxon weapon, the gun.”

“A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that were not fashionable anymore. Were here to stay. Not just because of us, but because the entire Spanish-speaking community is occupying all types of social positions-from congressmen all the way down to the people who take out the garbage cans.”

“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.”

“I admired Melanie before I loved her.”

“Ive 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.”

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

“I dont want anything I dont deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, Im not stupid.”

“To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.”

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

“For me it is beautiful that because there is a character in the film that speaks with a Spanish accent, the Spanish-speakers answer to that. The studios know that there is an audience there that shouldnt be misused. They are part of the American melting pot.”

“Now that Im doing it, Im enjoying it very much.”

“Broadway is not about money. Its about performing. I love that possibility of independence. I have to use it. Money was an issue when I didnt have it. Now that I do, the good thing is I dont have to think about it. The rest of my life has to be focusing on what I love.”

“She accepts anything that life throws at her. Shes way stronger than people think she is. Is it painful for her? Yes, of course it is.”

“It was more painful this time, ... Possibly its because Im 45 now and any time that I crashed somewhere, the bones started telling you that you are 45. I suppose thats not only because Im seven years older but because the movie was, in that respect, a little harder.”

“We were very specific about the fact that Zorro shouldnt kill anyone directly,”

“We were very keen on not showing any blood in the movie or showing Zorro stabbing anybody -- which happens in the first one. This time, Steven and Martin Campbell and everybody around the movie were very careful with that type of thing.”

“We have to think also that this movie is going to be seen by kids, too, ... I think its important that its not so bloody.”

“I was a kid like many thousands — millions — of kids in the world who saw the [1950s] TV series starring Guy Williams. I used to sword-fight with my little brother on the terrace of our house in Malaga, with plastic swords.”

“I can do the horse and the sword, its all me in the movie, ... I feel very comfortable with horses. The sword thing is tough because you have to train a lot. Its just repetition after repetition after repetition.”

“The Legend of Zorro”