Penélope Cruz - biography

“The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress.  No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.”

“My ambition is to be happy.”

“The most important lesson I’ve learned in this business is how to say no.  I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.”

“When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.”

“I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself.  I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single.”

“I want to have babies one day but not right now.  When I do it I want to do it really well.  I want it to be my best project in life.”

“I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life.  They whisper to me, ‘Tell me the truth?  Is it true?’ Who cares?  Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep?  It’s a bit absurd, but that’s why everybody lies so much.”

“I don’t know if I believe in marriage.  I believe in family, love and children.”

“I like roles that people don’t recognize me in.”

“Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian.  In fact, that’s what I call him, Martian.”

Penélope Cruz has appeared in the following films:
Jamón, jamón (1992)
Belle epoque (1992)
Jamon Jamon (1992)
Per amore, solo per amore (1993)
El Laberinto griego (1993)
La Ribelle (1993)
Alegre ma non troppo (1994)
Todo es mentira (1994)
Entre rojas (1995)
El Efecto mariposa (1995)
Brujas (1996)
La Celestina (1996)
Más que amor, frenesí (1996)
El Amor perjudica seriamente la salud (1996)
Hjorne af paradis, Et (1997)
Carne trémula (1997)
Abre los ojos (1997)
A Scent of Paradise (1997)
Don Juan (1998)
The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998)
Talk of Angels (1998)
La Niña de tus ojos (1998)
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
If Only... (1998)
Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
Volavérunt (1999)
Woman on Top (2000)
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Blow (2001)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)
Sin noticias de Dios (2001)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Fanfan la Tulipe (2003)
Gothika (2003)
Non ti muovere (2004)
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Noel (2004)
Sahara (2005)
Chromophobia (2005)
Bandidas (2006)
Volver (2006)
Manolete (2007)
The Good Night (2007)
Elegy (2008)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
The Passion Within (2008)
Los Abrazos rotos (2009)
G-Force (2009)
Nine (2009)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
To Rome with Love (2012)