Spanish Actress Penelope Cruz was born April 28, 1974 in Madrid, Spain.

• "The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman."




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




• "When I'm acting in a movie, I feel very protected by a character, so I let a lot of monsters come out of me because it's justified through the character"




• "I think it is a privilege [to be working in show business.] Not everybody can do what they want to do and still eat. I'm very lucky. And it's getting better and better."




• "There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan."




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




• "I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much"




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

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