“If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I...” — Antonio Banderas Quote

“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.”

“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 remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.”

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

“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.”

“All these years, people have spoken good and bad things about me, but I always end up being discussed.”

“I've seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.”

“A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.”

“It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.”

“I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that's not how the world works.”

“No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.”