There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

You don't need a man, you need a champion.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

I've never been a fluffy sort of woman.

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.