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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. "
Help
Acting
Two
" 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. "
Easy
Dancing
Enough
" For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses. "
Career
Roles
Were
" 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. "
Dress
Makeup
Like
" I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami. "
Around
Heard
Walk
" I didn't go to school a lot. "
School
Lot
Go
" I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill. "
Little
Hill
Men
" 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. "
Girl
Myself
Tell
" I really wanted to work and become independent. "
Work
Really
Independent
" 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. "
Morning
Dance
Dancing
" Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! "
Eyes
Learn
You
" My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. "
Father
Two
Companion
" My first vocation was dance. "
Vocation
Dance
First
" My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. "
Just One
More
Only
" On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. "
Then
Stopped
Film
" People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. "
Television
Love
Coming
" Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next. "
Next
One Day
Solve
" The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked. "
Jump
Camera
Like
" The director had come to Madrid to court me. "
Come
Court
Director
" 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. "
Monday
Me
Face
" The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. "
Luck
Film
Me
" There's nothing more human than two people making love. "
Nothing
Love
Human
" When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. "
Got
Said
Laugh
" When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. "
Morning
Face
Character
" You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. "
Fake
Age
Mask
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