You shall love. Whether you like it or not.
I’m a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
You don’t need a man, you need a champion.
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that’s what counts.
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it’s boring.
I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.
I used to be a good party boy. I’m old. I’m an old man. You pay the consequences. I’m just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who’s trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don’t watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They’re to promote each other’s movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they’ll go to see them. It’s still the same.
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn’t a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
I have this problem with violence. I’ve only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It’s called Perdita Durango. It’s a Spanish movie. I’m very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.
I think the most difficult love begins with one’s self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.
I want to act because I don’t know how to do anything else.
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that’s for sure, no matter who.
As an actor, you can’t judge. A great actress from Spain said, “We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what.”
The only thing I can do is act, but it’s not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I’m a shy person, even if I don’t look it.