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Penelope Cruz Quotes

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

– Penelope Cruz

I love Salma Hayek; we’ve been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

– Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it’s disrespectful to say, ‘Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.’ I’d rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

– Penelope Cruz

When I was 16, I got ‘Jamon, Jamon.’ Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

– Penelope Cruz

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! Sometimes I think I’m an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman’s body.

– Penelope Cruz

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it’s about pain, in whichever form it comes.

– Penelope Cruz

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.

– Penelope Cruz

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.

– Penelope Cruz

There are so many designers that I love, and I’m so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

– Penelope Cruz

I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it’s my closest friends or family.

– Penelope Cruz

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

– Penelope Cruz

I only drive in movies. I know that’s very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.

– Penelope Cruz

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.

– Penelope Cruz

For ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona,’ for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.

– Penelope Cruz

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn’t know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

– Penelope Cruz

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?

– Penelope Cruz

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.’

– Penelope Cruz

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.

– Penelope Cruz

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it’s about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child – sometimes too much – and I didn’t know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.

– Penelope Cruz

I had a very curly perm in the ’80s, thanks to the ‘Way You Make Me Feel’ Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.

– Penelope Cruz

I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

– Penelope Cruz

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn’t speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

– Penelope Cruz

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

– Penelope Cruz

I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

– Penelope Cruz

I want my son – and my kids, if I have more – to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn’t give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

– Penelope Cruz

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

– Penelope Cruz

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

– Penelope Cruz

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don’t want to be in any box. I don’t want to be one thing.

– Penelope Cruz

I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn’t speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

– Penelope Cruz

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

– Penelope Cruz

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