I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the Italian neo-realist films. A lot of them had those characters that represented motherhood. For some reason, in the '50s in Italy, the mother figure was very important - and my character needed to have that energy.

I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.