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.”
We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
There is no middle ground in Hollywood, you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.
We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it’s only a movie.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
When you’re working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.
I can’t imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.
I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.
When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: ‘How could I have done that?’ but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you’re 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: ‘Was I like that? Was I really like that?’
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
I think we are living in selfish times. I’m the first one to say that I’m the most selfish. We live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
I hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it’s fun to pretend in the movies.
There is no good side to celebrity.
Many people out there don’t have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they’re being manipulated by.
I’ve always belonged to the street, and I always will. It’s in my DNA.
Celebrity is very weird.
My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I’m a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.
Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.
Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that’s not fair. How can you tell what’s best and what’s worst from these awards? We’re talking about art.
Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there’s curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn’t speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn’t felt in a while. But I like it.
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.