Elizondo Quotes

#1. 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

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

Hector Elizondo

#3. On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

Doris Lessing

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

Hector Elizondo

#5. She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, 'I am Lilith and you are mine now - forever.

Alan Kinross

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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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#9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#14. One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

#15. 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

#16. Know this: anyone who does anything worthy, anything noble, anything meaningful, will have critics.

Eric Greitens

#17. Food is a passion. Food is love.

Hector Elizondo

#18. There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Mark Twain

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

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

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#21. Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

Slug

#22. You're like a tour guide for reality.

Julie Reece Deaver

#23. 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

#24. There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Hector Elizondo

#26. I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Matthew Bourne

#27. The last thing that made sense was to sit around, ogling girls in the park and

James S.A. Corey

#28. Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

Hector Elizondo

#29. I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.

Brandy Norwood

#30. 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.

Hector Elizondo

#31. 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

#32. Service is the highest form of worship.

Debasish Mridha

#33. 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

#34. There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.

Dale Carnegie

#35. 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.

Hector Elizondo

#36. Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

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#37. 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.

Hector Elizondo

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

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#39. On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.

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#40. It's despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

Lara Biyuts

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

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

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#43. 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