Hector Elizondo famous quotes

03-18-2025

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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Speak #Accents #Difficult
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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Moving #Hands #Differences
Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Sister #Sometimes #Walks
I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Mean #Scripts #Dots
Food is a passion. Food is love.
-- Hector Elizondo

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

#Fate #Destiny #Fortune Cookie
I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Littles #Spoiled #Cooks
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Bullets #Scandal
Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Parent #Dollars #Used
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Mother #Children #Struggle
I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Radio #Kind
I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#School #Years #Play
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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Thinking #Long #Waiting
I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Thinking #Comedy #Human Condition
You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Games #Comedy

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