Incredible Women
Penélope Cruz’s golden rules
Oscar winner, muse to Pedro Almodóvar and now playing Donatella Versace in the second American Crime Story series, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, PENÉLOPE CRUZ talks breakfast, bad movies and the best way to deal with failure
Make MISTAKES. It is SCARY, but when you do you truly EXPLORE life and LIVE it FULLY.
View SUCCESS and FAILURE from a distance. As an actor, everything is blown out of PROPORTION, from the SCREEN size to what the CRITICS write.
DANCE! I did classical ballet for 17 years. To stay in SHAPE, I always exercise to music – it CALMS the mind.
Do ONE thing at a time, but really DO it. I used to do FIVE things at once, but then are you really DOING them?
Say GOODBYE to negative SELF-JUDGEMENT. No one can stop you more than you, and equally NO ONE can LIBERATE you more than you.
READ Within: A Spiritual Awakening to Love & Weight Loss by Dr Habib Sadeghi. He is a TRUE master and his book discusses the POWER of self-love.
Always be a STUDENT. It is the key to BETTERING yourself. I make movies in FOUR languages Spanish, English, Italian and French so I am always with a teacher LEARNING characters and lines.
LISTEN. This is something my children taught me. They are such good listeners and they REACT when they know I am not giving them my FULL attention.
Always have BREAKFAST with the FAMILY. In my house, this is usually French toast made with coconut oil. Family is the one thing I CANNOT live WITHOUT – it’s INCREDIBLE how much they mean to me.
Keep a collection of BAD movies, the worst you can find, to CURE sleeplessness. Unfortunately, my HUSBAND actor Javier Bardem is one of those people who will ALWAYS watch a movie to the end – even if he HATES it!
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