You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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Quotes by Victoria Abril
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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.
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.
There's nothing more human than two people making love.
I really wanted to work and become independent.
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
I didn't go to school a lot.
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.
My first vocation was dance.
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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 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.
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