I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

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.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.