Victoria Abril famous quotes

03-28-2025

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
-- Victoria Abril

#Fake People #Real #Moving
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
-- Victoria Abril

#Laughing #Auditions #Film
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

#Two #People #Acting
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
-- Victoria Abril

#Morning #Character #Voice
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

#Monday #Horse #Hands
My first vocation was dance.
-- Victoria Abril

#Firsts #Vocation
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
-- Victoria Abril

#Dancing #Film #Fifth
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
-- Victoria Abril

#People #Television #Misery
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
-- Victoria Abril

#One Day #Next #Psychiatrist
There's nothing more human than two people making love.
-- Victoria Abril

#Two #People #Making Love
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
-- Victoria Abril

#Boys
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
-- Victoria Abril

#Father #Son #Two
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
-- Victoria Abril

#Eye #Ears
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

#Makeup #Sun #Dresses
I really wanted to work and become independent.
-- Victoria Abril

#Independent #Independent Women #Wanted
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
-- Victoria Abril

#Careers #Actresses #Roles
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

#Pain #Dancing #Scripts
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
-- Victoria Abril

#Men #Littles #Hills
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

#Morning #School #Night
I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
-- Victoria Abril

#Girl #Play #Likes
I didn't go to school a lot.
-- Victoria Abril

#School

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