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

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.