"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."

"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

"I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere."

"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me."