It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

I`ve never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn`t happen with dogs. They`re different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I`m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

It`s a character that I always found really likable. I`m fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

I get more attention as the pussycat in `Shrek 3` than I ever did as Zorro.

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.

When you see actors on the red carpet they seem to know each other but really it`s like a wax museum. Los Angeles is probably one of the fakest cities in the world. For me it is a working place.

I don`t believe in careers, I just picture myself always as one of those old actors from the 19th century who go from village to village in their repertoire.

I get more attention as "the pussycat" in Shrek the Third (2007) than I ever did as Zorro.

I admired Melanie before I loved her.

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it`s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. There`s too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. It`s just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.

"I hate that cat ["Puss in Boots" from Shrek 2 (2004)]. Ever since he appeared in my life he`s more important than me. Now women always say, `Oh, I love that cat. He`s so cute`. Before, it was, `I loved you in Zorro`. And sometimes you think is she saying that because she has some other . . . intention? But no. They love the cat, and they hate me".

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn`t have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

"This lust for beauty is a terrible thing. I`ve forbidden her from ever going to a cosmetic surgeon again. It is something we have agreed to for the sake of our marriage" [on his wife, Melanie Griffith, having more plastic surgery].

I don`t want anything I don`t deserve, (but) if they offer me more money, I`m not stupid.