Quotes by Penelope Cruz

• 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.
• 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 like roles that people don't recognize me in.
• 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 don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
• 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.
• 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.
• Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
• When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
• Embrace the unfamiliar, for within it lies the potential for growth and transformation.
• Life is a canvas, paint your reality with bold strokes of passion and purpose.