Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
There's nothing more human than two people making love.
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
I really wanted to work and become independent.
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.
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
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.
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 like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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.
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.
