Hector Elizondo Quotes:

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

source: - "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.

Topics: Thinking, Important, Looks

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

source: - "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.

Topics: Speak, Accents, Difficult, Speaks French

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Moving, Hands, Differences

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Sister, Sometimes, Walks

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Matter, Never Quit, Quitting

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mean, Scripts, Dots

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Topics: Passion

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fate, Destiny, Fortune Cookie

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Littles, Spoiled, Cooks

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Bullets, Scandal

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Jobs, Pretty Woman, Done

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Parent, Dollars, Used

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Life Is, Pathos

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Lows, Work Harder, Plans

Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.

Topics: Mother, Children, Struggle, Proper Nutrition

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

Topics: Radio, Kind

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Actors, Wells, Handle

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: School, Years, Play, Six Degrees Of Separation, School Plays

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Parent, Secret, Dip

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, Long, Waiting, Love Will Find You, Enough Love

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, Comedy, Human Condition

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Games, Comedy

It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

source: - "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

Topics: Wonderful, Complicated, Good Marriage

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

source: - "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

Topics: Media, Space, Expectations

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

source: - "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

Topics: Thinking, Periods, Materials

Every day is Valentine's Day! I'm a hopeless romantic.

source: - "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

Topics: Valentine, Hopeless Romantic, Valentine's Day