As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him ‘bigger than life,’ as the Americans say.
Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.
I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.
I divide my time badly.
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn’t have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.
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.
Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don’t know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I’m not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It’s a secret.
I don’t want anything I don’t deserve, but if they offer me more money, I’m 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.
Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.
I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.
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.
If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn’t work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don’t think too much. I don’t go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.
This girl said “Yes” when I wasn’t ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.
I don’t believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you’re working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.
I don’t like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn’t know that value of them.
Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die – the final act of my script – people will always make references to the work I’ve done with Almodovar.
I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
I don’t think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.