Elizondo Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned. — Hector Elizondo

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically. — Hector Elizondo

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

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

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

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy. — Hector Elizondo

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

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee. — Hector Elizondo

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

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister. — Hector Elizondo

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life. — Hector Elizondo

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all. — Hector Elizondo

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

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first. — Hector Elizondo

Every day is Valentine's Day! I'm a hopeless romantic. — Hector Elizondo

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy. — Hector Elizondo

That's because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to those we leave behind. After all, we're the ones venturing out into the big crazy world, filling up journals, growing like weeds. And we have the gall to think they're just sitting at home, soaking in security and stability.
It is only when we reopen these wrapped and ribboned boxes, upon our triumphant return home, that we discover nothing is the way we had left it before. — Stephanie Elizondo Griest

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

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

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms. — Hector Elizondo

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

I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing. — Garry Marshall

Food is a passion. Food is love. — 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

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak. — Hector Elizondo

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well. — Hector Elizondo

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

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