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" 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. "

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" In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit. "

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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. "

" You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Madrid is what I call home, but also the States. "

" 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. "

" Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself. "

" I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets. "

" Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian. "

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