All quotations and phrases said by Hector Elizondo including famous quotes

And it's based on loyalty more than anything else. We take great glee that in a business that isn't very loyal, we are very loyal to each other.
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Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.
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Food is a passion. Food is love.
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I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.
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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 never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.
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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 started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
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I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
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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 was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.
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I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.
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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'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
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I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
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On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
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Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.
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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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What one learns is the most important thing to me, learning to come back, learning to start over, that's the deal.
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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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Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.
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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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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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You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.
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