I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

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.

Passion is a cobweb duster for the mind.

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'

It is a world of words that creates a world of things.

I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines. I heard that there are so many big malls there and so many beaches.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.