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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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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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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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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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I had to force things to happen.
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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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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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I made four or five films a year, and I still had enough time to grow desperate.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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I'll never forget it. I was still called Victoria Merida, my maiden name. On the first day, I saw my name on the door; I thought it couldn't be for me, so I walked past!
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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My family was a family of women. We were the type of women it is not easy to live with. I include myself in that.
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My first vocation was dance.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
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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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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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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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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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The movies were for me a kind of patronage that allowed me to keep studying dance.
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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We have to attack reality shows. I don't know how far it's going to go-it's a phenomenon that has invaded TV around the world.
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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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When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
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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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With sexual harassment, one always thinks of the man as the harasser, not the woman.
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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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