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Victoria Abril
July 4, 1959 -
Nationality: Spanish
Category: Actress
Subcategory: Spanish Actress

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

   

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

   

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

   

My first vocation was dance.

   

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

   

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

   

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.

   

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

   

I really wanted to work and become independent.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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