Skip to content

Portrait of Victoria Abril

Victoria Abril

(1959) Television Actor Spain

26 quotes in 139 categories

Victoria Abril is a television actor from Spain, best known for La liberación posible.

Quick Facts About Victoria Abril

Born: July 4, 1959
Nationality: Spain
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: La liberación posible
Spouse: Pierre Edelman

About Victoria Abril

Victoria Mérida Rojas, better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! by director Pedro Almodóvar.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Silver Bear for Best Actress Silver Shell for Best Actress Premios Ondas European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award Goya Award for Best Actress Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts

Quotes by Victoria Abril

I didn't go to school a lot.

Education

Image

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

Auditions

Image

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

Belly

Image

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of…

Acting

Image

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Character

Image

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened…

Directors

Image

I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the…

Gain weight

Image

My first vocation was dance.

Career

Image

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Ears

Image

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but…

Actress

Image

I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

Around

Image

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

Boys

Image

There's nothing more human than two people making love.

Humans

Image

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough…

Cinema

Image

I really wanted to work and become independent.

Independent

Image

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

Cinema

Image

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always…

Class

Image

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Misery

Image

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

Cinema

Image

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to…

Girl

Image

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I…

Dresses

Image

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Actresses

Image

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

Next

Image

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Companion

Image

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Age

Image