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I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

Penelope Cruz

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Penelope Cruz
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: April 28
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When I am dreaming at night, I see everything as a shot from a movie. I have cranes and extras in my dreams. I swear to you! It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots.
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It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.
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Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
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I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.
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In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free.
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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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In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.
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I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.
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He can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
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It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.
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It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
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My mother was very passionate about life and she would do anything for us. And she had to fight alone to raise us. We never had a lot of money for extras or anything. She had to work six days a week, and then she would do breakfast, lunch and dinner. She was a super-woman! For me, I don't know how she did it with three kids.
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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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Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?
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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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I came to New York to study ballet and English.
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