Antonio Banderas Quotes

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

Everything I do lands in the newspapers.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.