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My Plate Is Full With Just Acting. I Want To Focus On That, And Then Maybe Direct In The Future.

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.

I Really Like The Caribbean. Anyplace In The Caribbean. I Get There, And I Feel Like A Monkey - The Perfect State.

I Think Magic Is Very Related To Happiness. So It Is Not There All The Time, But There Are Beautiful Moments Of Magic In Everyone's Life.

[winning An Oscar] Was A Beautiful Thing That Happened. It Is In My House, And Every Time I Look At, I See All The People Who Are A Part Of It, All The People Who Gave Me Opportunities To Work, Gave Me Opportunities To Make A Living At This Thing [acting] That Was A Dream For Me, Growing Up. And I Got To Do It, And Then Again And Again And Again, And Make A Living Out Of Being An Actress.