I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I’ve done with Almodóvar.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.