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Penelope Cruz
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: April 28
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Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the Italian neo-realist films. A lot of them had those characters that represented motherhood. For some reason, in the '50s in Italy, the mother figure was very important - and my character needed to have that energy.
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I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.
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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
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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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There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.
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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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If we continue on the path we're on, there simply won't be enough fresh water for everyone.
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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 have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.
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He can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
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There is a magic factor that is sometimes on a movie set, that is a really, really beautiful thing that cannot be compared to anything else, if you are somebody that is really passionate about acting or directing or the world of movies.
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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.
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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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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 won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.
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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 a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.
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I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.
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I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.
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