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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. "

Penelope Cruz

Yourself

Enemy

I Am

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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.' "

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