Penelope Cruz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
-
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
-
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
-
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
-
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
-
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
-
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
-
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
-
Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
-
My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
-
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
-
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
-
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
-
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
-
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
-
High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
-
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
-
Weekends are about replenishment and rejuvenation. Time in Wales would definitely be part of my ideal weekend, at my own hotel, set in 72 acres of absolute gorgeousness. I can already feel the air working its magic, with the sea breeze drifting over us.
-
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
-
My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.
-
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
-
I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.
