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"I like roles that people don't recognize me in."
"I want to have babies myself. I don't know when. I don't feel it at the moment, but for sure I want to be a mother. It's a great thing."
"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'. I had a boyfriend at the time and I was so embarrassed that he was going to think I would say that to the press."
"Now I have seen that I am not the only one that has to go through gossip and lies because everyone who is in the public eye unfortunately has to go through that and sometimes it is very unfair. But I try not to put too much attention into those things and use my energy for some other things I have to do in my life. I don't even want to get angry about those things now."
"I think it is a privilege [to be working in show business.] Not everybody can do what they want to do and still eat. I'm very lucky. And it's getting better and better."
"I have a machine at home. Sometimes I do karaoke parties: everyone arrives saying they're not going to sing, but everybody sings. They all say, 'I'm too cool for karaoke,' and then they are fighting for the microphone."
"When I'm acting in a movie, I feel very protected by a character, so I let a lot of monsters come out of me because it's justified through the character."
"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."
"Pedro knows me as if he was my second mother! He can see everything in me - it is very scary, sometimes." - On Pedro Almodóvar
"My family are the best thing I have, and I spend a lot of time with them. We are very strict about that, about not letting anything interfere with having time for the family. We are always here for each other, all of us. We know that we can count on the rest, so we always find the time."
"I was always obsessed with Pedro. I always wanted to work with him. He is someone I have a very special relation with - like we know each other from before." - On Pedro Almodóvar
"I was dancing ballet for so many years, since I was four. It was like a desire or necessity to communicate feelings and emotions. Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words."
"I've always been a perfectionist, to the point where some people can misinterpret that as being a control freak. I put more time and energy into something because I want it to be as good as possible. My sister Monica is the same. We are very hard workers. That's how we grew up. My parents taught us that you earn every day that you get. They didn't have a lot of money and they had to work really hard to raise us. So I feel that every opportunity I get, I want to give it 100 per cent."
"My mother always tried to not laugh in front of me. I was the most difficult - stubborn and very rebellious. I didn't want to be told what to do. I still do the kicking once in a while." - On her mother raising her as a kid
"I'm there to serve my character, not my ego."
"I was raised as a Catholic, but I believe in God in my own way and I pray in my own way and I respect all kinds of philosophies. The one philosophy or religion that I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one that respects the others and the one that doesn't say that this is the only way. I think happiness is the moment when-if you've forgotten those little things-they suddenly come back into focus for you."
"When I really lose my temper, I repeat everything eighty times - again and again and again and again. Like I am talking to myself. But that takes a lot of energy away."
"Now, I work in four different languages, so sometimes I dream in a mixture of all four. I need to connect with many cultures and people of all ages and social classes. It really connects with...it's about feelings."
"I am not a drinker - half a glass of wine and I am already uh-oh!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I love to laugh, Ashton came up with the idea and said, 'I'm sure you wouldn't want to do something like this.' And I said, 'I'd love to do that to one of my best friends.' It was very funny."
"I sound like a groupie. My career and even my life wouldn't be the same without him." - On Pedro Almodóvar
"One day, I looked for myself (on the Internet), and I was so scared of what I saw. I saw 'Penélope Cruz Naked,' and I thought, what is that?"
"They think the rhythm of my life is completely nuts. I think my friends even worry a little bit but then they see that I don't party, I don't drink, I don't go out of night. Every hour I have of free time, I have a little bit of rest and a little bit of silence and quiet time."
"If I would have all of my papers tied up, I would get dizzy. I would throw up. But I think you find your own order in that craziness. Like, the way I travel? I don't know how I do it! I'm always late. I hear the flight is leaving, and I just sit on the floor and listen to my music."
"The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did."
"My ambition is to be happy."
"I went on holiday to Bono's house with his wife and kids. We were walking along, holding hands because we're very good friends, and do you know what the paparazzi did to us? They took photos and cropped out Bono's wife and children. So they made up a story about us being together."
"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."
"I like roles that people don't recognize me in."
"Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian."
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