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The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

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Penelope Cruz
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: April 28
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When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.
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I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
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I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.
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In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.
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I really think insecurity is something that comes with being an actor - I don't know actors who aren't insecure. I do think I kind of lie to myself - there is a percentage of ego involved. And I don't say that's a bad thing - it's good to know that it's there whether we like it or not. But ego is like a lion that we have to keep under control.
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I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.
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I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything it was just too much for my body and my mind.
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I can cook a few things. I always save the same recipes to impress my friends, and I always do two or three things, so they think I can cook. But I don't know how to do anything else.
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My ambition is to be happy.
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I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.
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I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.
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Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.
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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
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One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.
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