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Ramírez appreciates his fast rise in the movie world and does not let fame to turn him very high and mighty (Photo: Oswer Díaz Mireles)	Édgar Ramírez "Success is very moving" "Setting myself the goal of winning an Oscar would be like carrying an 8-story building around on my back. A nightmare. I try to do the best I can, I hope for the best"
Ramírez appreciates his fast rise in the movie world and does not let fame to turn him very high and mighty (Photo: Oswer Díaz Mireles)

(4) 3 votes Vote Vote ¡Thanks for voting! MARIEMMA RAMOS EL UNIVERSAL "Airplanes. We all complain about the same thing. Five days here, five days there. It is a routine, part of a life plan that I still intend to follow. Becoming an actor was a very serious and carefully thought out decision. It was not something that just happened, but neither was it something that I had planned since childhood. As a child, perhaps like most other actors, I wanted to be something different every day. About seven years ago, I made up my mind to spend my time telling stories, and that is what I still want to do, more so than ever. With the same expectations and fears as at the beginning. In the long run, your obsessions, your neuroses and your fears are always with you. Their size changes, just as we do. You do not win until you outgrow them and harmonize them. "Cynicism terrifies me; I feel it is nothing but detachment and loneliness. I never cease to be surprised by everything that happens to me, by every trip I take. I have not burned out. I may be exhausted, but only physically and mechanically. My mind, however, continues to feel very stimulated, and my heart very moved by all the opportunities and things I encounter in life. I feel extremely privileged to be leading the life I do, with the wonderful people I have met and keep on meeting, on screen and off. The 2008 Oscar ceremony was a major turning point in my career. I had already been involved in a project that was nominated. The Oscar, the box office, the ratings, I am always very cautious about everything having to do with the fruits of my work because they cause unnecessary anxiety; this career is one that already builds up a fairly heavy burden of anxiety, without piling even more on top. When you are making a movie or doing a job you cannot spend your time thinking about prizes, because that is beyond your control. It is only once it happens, when recognition comes, that I am overcome by emotion. Not even when I was working on Bourne, or Vantage Point, or even Cyrano did I imagine the things that are happening now, because you cannot imagine it. It is not healthy. Setting myself the goal of winning an Oscar would be like carrying an 8-story building around on my back. A nightmare. I try to do the best I can, I hope for the best, and I allow myself to be surprised. "I hope I never lose the capacity to be surprised. To be moved by the things that happen to me. When you are working, you have to concentrate on the here and now, just like a monk. "Today I can say that I find success moving. Above all when I come back to my own country; even though elsewhere in the world there are journalists and people who are surprised at what I have accomplished in such a short time, it is never the same. There are people who need a whole lifetime. It has taken me six years to become one of the Latin American actors who have had the greatest opportunities in movies, and I am aware of that, and value it every day. And yes, I am very moved because it was a risky bet, where I held nothing back. For me being an actor is like being in free fall. I jumped without any plan B, and I am moved by how far it has taken me. "I am working on making a career in movies, despite coming from a country where, it has been said, movies could not be made. Working in a market where, it has been said, there is no room for Latin actors, in roles and movies not made for us; and that, naturally, still fills me with a great deal of hope." Translated by Francine Jacome