Latest Penelope Cruz Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking, Impress

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Pedro's Almodovar different - very unique, very particular and difficult to compare to anyone else. But I've been lucky with many of the people that I've worked with. I think I've been very lucky with great opportunities - directors like Stephen Frears, Cameron Crowe and Fernando Trueba, as well as Bigas Luna, who gave me my first opportunity. There are a lot of people I would love to work with again. But, of course, I have a special relationship with Pedro and I don't think it's good to hide that.

  Penelope Cruz

  Unique, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It's fun for women to be in a Western. And I had to learn how to handle the guns. I would walk around with the fake guns. It takes a lot of practice to twirl them around - but I can do a lot of crazy things now from movies. I can gallop a camel! Give me a camel, I know how to start it and stop it!

  Penelope Cruz

  Fun, Crazy, Gun

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• We had a great connection with Pedro Almodovar from the beginning. Even before I met him, it was so strange. I felt like I already knew him. I loved him even before I met him. It was so powerful. And when I looked at him in the eyes, this was the feeling that I knew I was going to have with him. It gets bigger and bigger every day. I adore him. It's much more than working together. He's a really special person in my life.

  Penelope Cruz

  Powerful, Eye, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Mother, Character, Italian

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Mother, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• When I was on the set, I was not talking on the phone or reading anything else. I was just reading things, listening to music and watching things that had to do with the state of the scene. So it would be a constant, maintaining for the whole day that state. If I had an hour off for lunch, I would put on a movie or something that would help me stay in that area. And at the end of the day, I was like a zombie.

  Penelope Cruz

  Reading, Listening, Zombie

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity to play all of these different women. I always wanted that, and it's something that you cannot do by yourself. If you want to play a diversity of characters, somebody else has to have the imagination to give you a role completely out of the box. We depend on somebody else's trust, and these directors are giving me their trust, and I am grateful for that.

  Penelope Cruz

  Grateful, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.

  Penelope Cruz

  Feelings, Next Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• the older I am, the more I refuse to treat my work as therapy and the more I think it's less honest to do that, less about acting. When I was younger, I sometimes used personal things in creating characters, to the point where I thought maybe it was a little bit dangerous - at least for me. But I don't feel that somebody can only be good in a character if they are really becoming that person or really suffering.

  Penelope Cruz

  Character, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

  Penelope Cruz

  Insecure, Thinking, Ego

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Dream, Night, Complicated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

  Penelope Cruz

  Confusion, Trying, Complexity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work. Before, I was very addicted to being on set, and I was doing three or four movies a year for many years. Now, fortunately, I can go to work only when I am passionate about a project, and the rest of the time, I can live my life. I'm not interested in doing movies just as a marathon. When I go to work now, I have much more to give. But the other way, you get empty.

  Penelope Cruz

  Giving, Passionate, Marathon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm very honored to play one of the women in the movie Volver, and it was special acting with all those other talented actresses. Carmen Maura is a legend and it was a thrill to make a movie with her.

  Penelope Cruz

  Special, Acting, Honored

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

  Penelope Cruz

  People, Together, I Realized

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

  Penelope Cruz

  Teenager, Character, Age

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.

  Penelope Cruz

  Play, Roles, Tables

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

  Penelope Cruz

  Dancing, Acting, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one that respects 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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Penelope Cruz

  Availability, People, Water

• We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

  Penelope Cruz

  Water, Matter, Doing Nothing

• If we continue on the path we're on, there simply won't be enough fresh water for everyone.

  Penelope Cruz

  Water, Path, Enough

• I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

  Penelope Cruz

  Guy, Photographer, Inspired

  "Exclusive: Penélope Cruz on Shooting the 2013 Campari Calendar". Interview with Kristina Soriano, www.elle.com. November 13, 2012.