Sonia Braga Quotes

9 quotations by Sonia Braga

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

So I want to play a mother - but with a girlfriend. I think I have to go in many ways. To play a gay woman, a gay man, whatever.

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

I had to learn everything phonetically.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

And I love being a woman in somebody else's head, because there are no limits, and that's perfect for any actor. Total, total fantasy.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.