Quotes from Paz Vega

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

I never slept outside of my home.

For me, everything is cool.

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

My style go with me. It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

In Europe people don't worry about the body.

A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

Hollywood has treated me well.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.

Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.