Hector Elizondo quotes
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“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 ElizondoSource : "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.
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“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 ElizondoSource : "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.
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“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.”
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“Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.”
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“I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.”
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“You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.”
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“Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.”
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“I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.”
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“I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.”
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“Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.”
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“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.”
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“I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.”
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“You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.”
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“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.”
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“I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.”
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“I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.”
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“You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.”
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