I Think Most Actors . . .

My Mother Was Very Passionate About Life And She Would Do Anything For Us. And She Had To Fight Alone To Raise Us. We Never Had A Lot Of Money For Extras Or Anything. She Had To Work Six Days A Week, And Then She Would Do Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner. She Was A Super-woman! For Me, I Don't Know How She Did It With Three Kids.

I Am A Big Fan Of Photography, More Of Being Behind The Camera - So When I Get The Opportunity To Work With Such Great Photographers, I Always Try And Learn From Their Technique.

I've Seen My Grandmothers Grow Old And They Are So Beautiful, Every Wrinkle In Their Face Tells A Story. I Want To Feel That In 30 Years. I Would Always Choose That Kind Of Beauty Over That Comes From Having Too Much Done To Yourself.

I Have Had A Very Singular Kind Of Life Since I Started Working So Young, So I Am Very Used To Traveling, Working, Taking Time For Myself.

Pedro Almodóvar Asked Me To Watch Italian Films Again As Homework To Look At The Energy Of All Those Women From The Italian Neo-realist Films. A Lot Of Them Had Those Characters That Represented Motherhood. For Some Reason, In The '50s In Italy, The Mother Figure Was Very Important - And My Character Needed To Have That Energy.