Top 100 Quotes About Penelope Cruz
#1. I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. You won't be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.
Chris Rock
#3. I really love Penelope Cruz, because she has the tan skin. I think it's important to look at people who resemble you and see what looks good on them, and how they are doing their makeup or hair and how they carry themselves.
Tiffany Dupont
#4. I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
Vanessa Hudgens
#5. It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz ... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.
Anne-Marie Duff
#6. I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!
Tom Felton
#7. I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous.
Paz Vega
#8. I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.
Christina Aguilera
#9. 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.
Penelope Cruz
#10. I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'
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#11. I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
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#12. Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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#13. Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.
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#14. One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.
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#18. To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for the first time, and dance, which was something that I did growing up, but I had not done for many, many years.
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#19. I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.
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#20. I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.
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#21. I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.
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#22. I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.
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#23. 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. That's why I do remember many of them.
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#24. I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
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#25. The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
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#26. 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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#27. Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.
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#28. I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.
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#29. When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
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#30. My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.
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#31. I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.
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#32. I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
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#33. I came to New York to study ballet and English.
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#34. He can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
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#35. Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
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#36. Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.
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#37. 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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#38. I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.
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#39. There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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#40. I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'
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#42. 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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#43. When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
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#44. In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.
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#45. I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.
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#46. I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
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#47. I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.
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#48. Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.
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#49. I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.
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#50. I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
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#51. I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.
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#52. I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up. Family has always been the most important thing.
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#53. For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.
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#54. I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.
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#55. 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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#56. I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.
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#57. Sometimes, when things go well on a set, or when you are working with somebody like Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Rob Marshall or somebody so talented and so inspiring, it's really beautiful, what happens there.
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#58. My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.
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#59. Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.
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#60. 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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#61. The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.
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#62. My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.
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#63. I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.
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#64. I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.
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#65. All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.
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#66. When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
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#67. My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.
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#68. I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.
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#69. There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.
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#70. There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.
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#71. We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.
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#72. I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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#73. There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.
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#74. I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.
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#75. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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#76. I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!
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#77. As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
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#78. I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.
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#79. I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.
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#80. It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.
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#81. 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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#82. I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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#83. My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
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#84. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
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#85. 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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#86. I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
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#88. I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.
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#89. 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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#90. It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.
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#91. It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.
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#92. As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.
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#93. I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.
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#94. I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.
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#95. Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.
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#96. I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.
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#97. When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
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#98. 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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#99. You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.
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#100. I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.
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