Penelope Cruz Quotes

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

Penelope Cruz

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• Energy
• Calm
• Ballet

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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.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Face
  • Camera

• I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Just
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• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• 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.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Bores

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Home
  • Father
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Punk
  • Pure

• 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.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Girlfriend
  • Dating

• I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Hope

• Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Balance
  • Step
  • Beam

• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Past
  • Fall
  • Empty

• I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movies

• As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Mother
  • Energy
  • Calm