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 y…

- Penelope Cruz

To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for the first time, and dance, which was some…

- Penelope Cruz

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

- Penelope Cruz

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

- Penelope Cruz

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

- Penelope Cruz

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

- Penelope Cruz

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…

- Penelope Cruz

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what som…

- Penelope Cruz

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

- Penelope Cruz