Penelope Cruz Quotes

For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.

I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.

I left my husband and I thought 'I'm never dating ever again.'

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool.

Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

It's a weird thing because I've been single at the time when I've been successful. That's good and bad. Good, because you meet lots of people, bad because your privacy is infringed, so it's harder to develop things.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

I've only been in one relationship in my entire life so far. When that ended, I decided being with someone is not for me. I like my own company the best.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.