In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

We're living in hard times.

I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I’ve done with Almodóvar.