Top 80 Penelope Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.”

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2. “My ambition is to be happy.”

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3. “My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody’s eyes communicate.”

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4. “I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone’s life.”

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5. “I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.”

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6. “I want to work with Johnny Depp.”

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7. “Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.”

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8. “All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood – all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.”

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9. “The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It’s dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.”

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10. “We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.”

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11. “Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry – a sort of reunion.”

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12. “I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: ‘How are you?’ and ‘I want to work with Johnny Depp.’”

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13. “I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.”

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16. “There’s so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That’s my plan.”

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17. “I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.”

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18. “I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera – so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.”

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19. “When I was 16, I got ‘Jamon, Jamon.’ Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.”

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20. “I don’t think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.”

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21. “I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven’t really been single for a while, and I think it’s been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.”

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22. “He can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!”

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23. “My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “For ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona,’ for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.”

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26. “Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.”

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27. “Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.”

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28. “I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.”

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29. “The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.”

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30. “I had a very curly perm in the ’80s, thanks to the ‘Way You Make Me Feel’ Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.”

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31. “I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.”

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32. “In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers – if I can go barefoot, that’s even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.”

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33. “Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it’s hard to change.”

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34. “The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.”

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35. “I had things with numbers – because I love numbers – but it’s not something I’m proud of. I’m proud that I was able to send them away, because you’re much more present.”

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36. “I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it – women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.”

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37. “I spend so much time living by myself – mostly in hotels – and I pick up cats when I’m feeling particularly lonely.”

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38. “I’m strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying ‘I don’t agree’ and fighting with the children. It’s part of my curiosity for life.”

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39. “One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.”

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40. “I’m not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.”

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41. “I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don’t want to be in any box. I don’t want to be one thing.”

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42. “When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.”

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43. “I won’t go to places where you’re going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.”

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44. “My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people’s hair – if they let me.”

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45. “I never grew up dreaming about a wedding – I don’t think about things like that. I don’t know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.”

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46. “I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I’m always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I’m on holiday.”

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47. “I’ve seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.”

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48. “I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.”

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49. “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.”

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50. “As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.”

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