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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
Work
You
Director
People
Possible
Complicity
Only
Manipulation
Acting
Help
Even
Two
Two People
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril
Other
Written
Most
Were
Roles
Actress
Played
Career
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
Great
Earrings
Sun
Find
Dress
Some
Could
Put
Like
Most
Looked
Makeup
Duel
Explosive
Jennifer
Chose
Round
Ton
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
Victoria Abril
Men
Some
Over
Like
Hill
Little
Who
Belly
I really wanted to work and become independent.
Victoria Abril
Work
Become
Independent
Wanted
Really
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
Morning
School
Dance
Single
Dance Classes
Dancing
Threat
Classes
About
Could
Failed
Until
Course
Always
Forget
Then
Night
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
Myself
Girl
Mine
Tell
Small
No-One
Like
Likes
Because
Normal
Normal Girl
Stories
Fortunately
Play
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril
Father
Sons
Current
Companion
Two
My first vocation was dance.
Victoria Abril
Dance
First
Vocation
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
Victoria Abril
More
Only
Boy
Were
Friends
Just
Just One
Them
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril
Love
People
Television
Miseries
Coming
Show
Even
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
Victoria Abril
Day
One Day
Solve
Psychiatrists
Anything
Next
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
Victoria Abril
Me
Director
Madrid
Had
Come
Court
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
Me
Director
Face
Monday
Took
Teeth
Following
Wednesday
Horse
Him
His
Hands
Shooting
Happened
Asked
Show
There's nothing more human than two people making love.
Victoria Abril
Love
People
Nothing
More
Making
Than
Human
Two
Two People
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
Victoria Abril
Character
Morning
You
Face
Torture
Give
Voice
Get
Your
Each
Each Morning
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
Victoria de los Angeles
Imitation
Intimate
Independent
Put
Like
Am
Tradition
Traditions
Lot
German
Very
Personal
Ladies
Mean
Aside
Copy
With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
Victoria de los Angeles
Music
Time
Together
Problem
Too Much
First
Too
Everything
Could
Well
First Time
Without
Geoffrey
Understood
Did
Any
Much
Rehearse
Need
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
Victoria de los Angeles
Music
Good
Communication
Personality
Others
Say
Must
Pretend
Would
Would-Be
Something
Voice
Instance
Look
Well
Understand
Go
Yes
Very
Goes
Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
Victoria de los Angeles
Work
Look
Well
Does
His
Begin
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles
Music
Me
Quality
Other
Pleasure
Easy
He
Well
Make
Him
Geoffrey
Understood
Doing
Very
Loved
Mean
Much
Each
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
Victoria de los Angeles
Reality
Little Things
Understanding
Out
Only
Point
Said
Geoffrey
Doing
His
Trusted
Very
Wanted
Little
Much
Moment
Many
Things
Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.
Victoria de los Angeles
Death
Me
Generally
Course
Geoffrey
Caused
Lot
Trauma
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
Victoria de los Angeles
Music
Myself
Family
Me
You
Made
Three
Group
Ancient
See
Years
Lot
Won
Very
Debut
Prize
After
Spain
Poor
Grant
Helped
Helping
Found
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
Music
Me
Singing
Others
Fuss
Never
Part
Like
Sing
Make
Interested
Things
Exterior
Career
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
Victoria de los Angeles
Unless
Ancient
French
Italian
German
Baroque
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