Victoria Abril Quotes & Sayings

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril

My first vocation was dance. — Victoria Abril

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

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

I didn't go to school a lot. — Victoria Abril

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. — Victoria Abril

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. — Victoria Abril

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. — Victoria Abril

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next. — Victoria Abril

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

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

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

There's nothing more human than two people making love. — Victoria Abril

The director had come to Madrid to court me. — Victoria Abril

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. — Victoria Abril

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

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

I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami. — Victoria Abril

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

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. — Victoria Abril

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses. — Victoria Abril

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill. — Victoria Abril

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. — Victoria Abril

I really wanted to work and become independent. — Victoria Abril

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