Top 80 Penelope Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.”

— Penelope Cruz

52. “I try to look at the whole thing and say ‘yes’ to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me – then that’s when I want to go to work.”

— Penelope Cruz

53. “In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free.”

— Penelope Cruz

54. “When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.”

— Penelope Cruz

55. “Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?”

— Penelope Cruz

56. “I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I’d rather not label myself.”

— Penelope Cruz

57. “I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don’t have the discipline to go to the gym.”

— Penelope Cruz

58. “I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it’s in my nature. It’s the thing that makes me suffer the most.”

— Penelope Cruz

59. “I came to New York to study ballet and English.”

— Penelope Cruz

60. “I like roles that people don’t recognize me in.”

— Penelope Cruz

61. “I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.”

— Penelope Cruz

62. “I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, ‘Tell me the truth? Is it true?’ Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It’s a bit absurd, but that’s why everybody lies so much.”

— Penelope Cruz

63. “It is a revolutionary experience. That’s the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.”

— Penelope Cruz

64. “Sometimes, when things go well on a set, or when you are working with somebody like Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Rob Marshall or somebody so talented and so inspiring, it’s really beautiful, what happens there.”

— Penelope Cruz

65. “I don’t do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.”

— Penelope Cruz

66. “I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don’t know any other way.”

— Penelope Cruz

67. “There is a magic factor that is sometimes on a movie set, that is a really, really beautiful thing that cannot be compared to anything else, if you are somebody that is really passionate about acting or directing or the world of movies.”

— Penelope Cruz

68. “Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.”

— Penelope Cruz

69. “I’ve worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.”

— Penelope Cruz

70. “It feels great and it’s very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.”

— Penelope Cruz

71. “It’s great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family – my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.”

— Penelope Cruz

72. “As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm – this pleased my mother.”

— Penelope Cruz

73. “When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.”

— Penelope Cruz

74. “I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.”

— Penelope Cruz

75. “To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for the first time, and dance, which was something that I did growing up, but I had not done for many, many years.”

— Penelope Cruz

76. “I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.”

— Penelope Cruz

77. “Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that’s what I call him, Martian.”

— Penelope Cruz

78. “In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That’s my plan.”

— Penelope Cruz

79. “Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.”

— Penelope Cruz

80. “There are so many designers that I love, and I’m so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.”

— Penelope Cruz

81. “Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.”

— Penelope Cruz

82. “Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character – it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.”

— Penelope Cruz

83. “I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey – the perfect state.”

— Penelope Cruz

84. “It’s very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.”

— Penelope Cruz