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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Victoria Abril

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Victoria Abril
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 4
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Jazz Musician
Singer
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Victoria Mérida Rojas
Victoria Merida Rojas
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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