In Spain, Actresses Work Until

My Parents Owned A Hair Salon, So I Learned A Few Tricks There. I Can Cut People's Hair - If They Let Me.

The Older I Am, The More I Refuse To Treat My Work As Therapy And The More I Think It's Less Honest To Do That, Less About Acting. When I Was Younger, I Sometimes Used Personal Things In Creating Characters, To The Point Where I Thought Maybe It Was A Little Bit Dangerous - At Least For Me. But I Don't Feel That Somebody Can Only Be Good In A Character If They Are Really Becoming That Person Or Really Suffering.

Pedro Almodóvar Asked Me To Watch Italian Films Again As Homework To Look At The Energy Of All Those Women From The Italian Neo-realist Films. A Lot Of Them Had Those Characters That Represented Motherhood. For Some Reason, In The '50s In Italy, The Mother Figure Was Very Important - And My Character Needed To Have That Energy.

We Need To Stop The Dying And Start The Living; Stop The Hunger And Start The Hoping.

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.