“Broadway is not about money. It's about performing. I love that possibility of independence. I have to use it. Money was an issue when I didn't have it. Now that I do, the good thing is I don't have to think about it. The rest of my life has to be focusing on what I love.”
“It was more painful this time, ... Possibly it's because I'm 45 now and any time that I crashed somewhere, the bones started telling you that you are 45. I suppose that's not only because I'm seven years older but because the movie was, in that respect, a little harder.”
“We were very keen on not showing any blood in the movie or showing Zorro stabbing anybody -- which happens in the first one. This time, Steven and Martin Campbell and everybody around the movie were very careful with that type of thing.”
“I was a kid like many thousands — millions — of kids in the world who saw the [1950s] TV series starring Guy Williams. I used to sword-fight with my little brother on the terrace of our house in Malaga, with plastic swords.”
“I can do the horse and the sword, it's all me in the movie, ... I feel very comfortable with horses. The sword thing is tough because you have to train a lot. It's just repetition after repetition after repetition.”