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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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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.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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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.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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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.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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