Hector Elizondo

Food is a passion. Food is love.

— Hector Elizondo

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

— Hector Elizondo

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

— Hector Elizondo

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can…

— Hector Elizondo

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in…

— Hector Elizondo

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise…

— Hector Elizondo

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

— 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…

— Hector Elizondo

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

— Hector Elizondo

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

— Hector Elizondo

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

— 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…

— Hector Elizondo

I think you can tell the human condition better through 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…

— 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…

— Hector Elizondo

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

— 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…

— Hector Elizondo

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

— 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…

— Hector Elizondo

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

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

— Hector Elizondo

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

— Hector Elizondo

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

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

— Hector Elizondo