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 yo….

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 l….

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state..

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind..

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..

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

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

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

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard wor….

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing tha….

I want to work with Johnny Depp..

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

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not ….

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..

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 othe….

I love the Italian culture, it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Someti….

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 ex….

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent..

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

I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely..

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….