Penelope Cruz Quotes
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Writing bores me so.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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I seem to be getting more calls from people who've been arrested for simple possession.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
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I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.
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As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
