I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

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.

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."

In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.