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Victoria Abril [1959-0] Spanish

Rank: 101
Actress, Film actress

Victoria Abril is a Spanish film actress and singer. She is best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame! by director Pedro Almodóvar.

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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.	Age	101
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!		102
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.		103
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.		104
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.		105
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.		106
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.		107
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.		108
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.		109
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.		110
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.		111
My first vocation was dance.		112
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.		113
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.		114
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.		115
The director had come to Madrid to court me.		116
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.		117
There's nothing more human than two people making love.		118
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.		119
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.		120
I really wanted to work and become independent.		121
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.		122
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.		123
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.		124
I didn't go to school a lot.		125

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