Penelope Cruz Quotes
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
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I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.
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I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
