Hector Elizondo Quotes
"Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Sister)
"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
(Related: Difference, Fact)
"I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Work)
"Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: First)
"Food is a passion. Food is love."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Food, Love, Passion)
"I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Work, Actors)
"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
(Related: Love, God, Fact, Will)
"I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned."
- Hector Elizondo
"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
(Related: Old, Play, School, Separation, Singing, Years)
"I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Work)
"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
(Related: Work, Time, Parents)
"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
(Related: Experience, Parenting, Work, Secrets)
"I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Life)
"I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Life, Scandal)
"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Work, Waiting)
"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Comedy)
"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: American, First)
"You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Trust, Jokes)
"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
(Related: Time, Work)
"You're at the top of your game if you do comedy."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Comedy)
"Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Destiny, Fortune)