We understood very (clearly) that not only just the 33, not only miners, but workers who work in very extreme conditions deserve our respect, by the time we were doing the movie, for us it was very important to represent these people ... to have them in front of us and giving us information that we needed to perform those characters properly and honestly.

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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

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beautiful character kids

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?

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You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

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[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

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connections strange age

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

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integrated fashionable mean

I divide my time badly.

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divides my-time

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

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flesh

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

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When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

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doing-nothing actors feelings

I long to get back into theater.

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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

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gay character thinking

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

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caught reading writing

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

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scene may thinking

You have to work with people you really love.

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people

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

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knowing country people

As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.

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lines different ideas

You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.

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aspect changed soul

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

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warrior careers hero

People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.

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couple trying people

When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find, exactly. You don't know if it's going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this guy - that's true... It's worse, actually, when you have people around you that are very hungry to obtain something that they never had. Success.

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