Victoria Abril Quotes

» Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

» Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

» For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

» I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

» I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.

» I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

» I really wanted to work and become independent.

» I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

» I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

» I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

» Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

» My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

» My first vocation was dance.

» My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

» On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

» People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

» Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

» The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

» The director had come to Madrid to court me.

» The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

» The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

» There's nothing more human than two people making love.

» When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

» When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

» You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

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