Penelope Cruz Quotes

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Penelope Cruz

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 28, 1974

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

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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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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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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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One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

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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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I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

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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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I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

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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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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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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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It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

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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.

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