Abril Quotes & Sayings

Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you.
Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom ... I'm great company for myself. Me, myself, and I ... we laugh a lot. (Said on the first week of class each phase, somewhat rewording each time, but the gist is always there). — Dacia Wilkinson

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

They are not so much afraid of ennui as of labour without pleasure; — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!
Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful ... thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH? — Cressida Cowell

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. — Barry M. Goldwater

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

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

Kai appeared in the foyer below with a garland of ribbon and roses draped across his shoulders. Cinder smirked. "Having fun down there?" "Surprisingly, I sort of am. Turns out Thorne has a weird knack for this wedding thing. He says it's because Cress has been poring over wedding feeds for the past few months, but ... I think he's secretly enjoying it." Thorne's voice came booming from the sitting room: "Don't mock a guy for having good taste! — Marissa Meyer

Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them? — Ali Harris

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

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

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

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

Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality. — Frederick Lenz

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink. — Roberto Civita

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

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films. — Colin Trevorrow

Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me (p. 317).
Kinsey Millhone in V is for Vengeance — Sue Grafton

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface. — Jodi Picoult

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

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

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

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

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised. — Katy Perry

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

You can't make a zebra by painting stripes on a horse. — Holly Bodger

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