Penelope Cruz is a “worrier”. Despite having a great job and dating the always handsome Javier Bardem, the Spanish actress has to be busy all the time or she panics about her life.

She explained in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine:

“I’ve always been a worrier. Since I was a little girl I’ve always felt that if I had a moment of peace I’d wonder, ‘Are you sure you can afford to feel like this?’ ”

Penelope, 35, also revealed she learned to act during her teenage years which were spent watching women being pampered in a beauty salon in her hometown of Alcobendas, Spain.

“It was my first acting school. I would pretend to be doing my homework, but I was really observing the women. I found their behavior mesmerizing - what they were hiding, how they left feeling a little different after they’d been helped to become a little more like whom they wanted to look like. They treated the place a little bit like a psychologist’s office. They would share all their secrets.”

Never looked at a beauty salon that way! :)

Photos by INF