Penelope Cruz Quotes

My ambition is to be happy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.

I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.

He can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I can cook a few things. I always save the same recipes to impress my friends, and I always do two or three things, so they think I can cook. But I don't know how to do anything else.

Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.