Victoria Abril Quotes
"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Father, Sons)
"I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami."
- Victoria Abril
"My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Boys, Friends)
"I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dress, Makeup, Sun)
"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dancing, Film)
"My first vocation was dance."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dance, First, Vocation)
"I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dance, Dancing, Forget, Night, School)
"I really wanted to work and become independent."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work)
"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Gain, Weight)
"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Career)
"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work, Dancing, Pain)
"Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work, People, Acting, Help, Manipulation)
"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Clothes, First)
"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Day)
"I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Men)
"The director had come to Madrid to court me."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Court)
"The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting."
- Victoria Abril
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Film, Luck)
"There's nothing more human than two people making love."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Nothing)
"When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Family, Film)
"When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Character, Voice)
"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Age, Passion)
"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Television)