“I suddenly got this picture. Antonio, he’s going on an adventure. It’s like not wanting to miss a good party. I saw Antonio like this golden bird climbing into the sky with all this power and all this energy coming from the tail feathers. And I was on the back, hanging on. I was on it for the ride. And the deeper I got into it, the more I realized I was supposed to be there. It was almost not for me. It wasn’t like I was on this trip for me. I feel Antonio so strongly, and I really want him to get everything that he deserves because he really deserves it. It’s a spiritual thing.”
I pulled that Chita Rivera quote from this pre-review of the Nine revival. But once I read the whole thing, my overwhelming response is: Best interview ever. Really incoherent quotes.
Choice quotes:
“In the States we choose to do things because they bring us to prominence. In London, for instance, you go back and forth from being a spear carrier to being Hamlet. What you learn is the value of the piece. And I think it really minimizes ego.” — Laura Benanti
“I literally counted my lines and went, `No’…I finally just went, `Too small for who?’ Not too small for me. Too small for Julia Roberts? Yes. And then they said Chita Rivera, and I was like, `Sure.'” — Laura Benanti
“You’re very much a huge part of what you give yourself to.” — Chita Rivera
“I’ve never in my life felt like I’m a beautiful girl; I’ve never held that with me. And this has taught me to at least carry myself as if I am, even if I don’t feel it in my heart.” — Laura Benanti The woman should be stopped from giving interviews forevermore, frankly
“I have a code: of our world and not of our world. And these women were of our world.” — David Leveaux (the director….That quote made me think of my OWN personal code: Of a pretentious nature and NOT of a pretentious nature … every person in this article except for Banderas sounds “of a pretentious nature” – Also, every quote from the director made me wonder: Hmm. Wonder if this one’s gonna bomb…sounds that way to me)
Antonio Banderas saves the day at the end of the article, with some coherent and charming quotes, about what it is like to be surrounded by women at all times.
“When I was sick, I got seven chicken soups in one afternoon.”
