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A part of being an actor is I...

A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

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When I was born, there was a ...

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

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The good thing about being an...

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

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Many people out there don't h...

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

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When you are portraying someb...

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

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And the whole Oscar thing, th...

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

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We actors always say how diff...

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

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The award is important in ord...

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

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I do respect people's faith, ...

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

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Only unfulfilled love can be ...

Only unfulfilled love can be romantic

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Age has no reality except in ...

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

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I don't know how to drive a c...

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

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I've played people that are o...

I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.

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I'm a huge fan of the directo...

I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

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All of the good movies are ba...

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

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I look in the mirror and I do...

I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

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The earliest memories I have ...

The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.

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I'm getting so old - it's mor...

I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.

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In 22 years of acting, I've o...

In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.

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My first part was in a film w...

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

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