I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it – women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.
I came to New York to study ballet and English.
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.
For ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona,’ for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.
I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.
When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.
I don’t do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.
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.
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.
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 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.
I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.
Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.
I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.
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.
It’s very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.
I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.
I don’t know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.
I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey – the perfect state.