A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in M?laga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left M?laga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.”

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.