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"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."

"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."

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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."

"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."

"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."

"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully."

"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."

"Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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