You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. – 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
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
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. – 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
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. – Victoria Abril
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. – 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
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
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
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
