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

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

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

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

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

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

I really wanted to work and become independent.
Victoria Abril

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

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

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


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

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril

My first vocation was dance.
Victoria Abril

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

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
Victoria Abril

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

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

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

The director had come to Madrid to court me.
Victoria Abril

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