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Victoria Abril

"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."

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"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."

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Donna Grant

"I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless."

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Donna Grant

"These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me."

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Donna Grant

"I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear."

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Donna Grant

"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants."

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Donna Grant

"But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s."

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Donna Grant

"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."

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Donna Grant

"There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above."

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Donna Grant

"I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes."

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Donna Grant

"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"

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Victoria Abril
"When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture."

Character

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Victoria Abril
"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."

Dance

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Victoria Abril
"I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill."

Men

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Victoria Abril
"Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director."

Work

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Victoria Abril
"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."

Clothes

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Victoria Abril
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."

Film

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Victoria Abril
"I really wanted to work and become independent."

Work

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Victoria Abril
"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."

Age

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Victoria Abril
"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."

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Victoria Abril
"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."

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