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Victoria Abril
Spanish
Actress
About the author
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,
Spanish
Actress
#Acting
#People
#Work
#Help
#Manipulation
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Film
#Dancing
My first vocation was dance.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Dance
#First
#Vocation
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,
Spanish
Actress
#Play
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Open
#Eyes
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Father
#Sons
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Friends
#Boys
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,
Spanish
Actress
#Dress
#Makeup
#Sun
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,
Spanish
Actress
#Dance
#Forget
#Night
#School
#Dancing
I really wanted to work and become independent.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Work
I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Gain
#Weight
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Career
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,
Spanish
Actress
#Work
#Dancing
#Pain
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,
Spanish
Actress
#First
#Clothes
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Day
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Men
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Court
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,
Spanish
Actress
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Film
#Luck
There's nothing more human than two people making love.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Love
#People
#Nothing
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Film
#Family
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Character
#Voice
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Age
#Passion
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril,
Spanish
Actress
#Love
#People
#Television