Daily Inspiration Quote by Victoria Abril

There is a quiet defiance baked into "I really wanted to work and become independent" because it treats independence not as a vibe, but as a job you earn. Coming from Victoria Abril, an actress who came of age in Spain’s post-Franco cultural shake-up, the line carries the residue of a country and an industry renegotiating freedom in real time. It’s not grand political rhetoric; it’s the everyday version of liberation: get paid, get choice, get out from under someone else’s permission.

The phrasing matters. "Really wanted" is insistence, a refusal to let the desire be softened into a cute ambition. And she doesn’t say "be successful" or "be famous" - she says "work", the unglamorous verb that strips the acting life of its mythologies. Abril’s career, often associated with bold, transgressive cinema (especially in the orbit of Almodovar), makes that plainspoken emphasis feel pointed: the provocation on screen is paired with practicality off it. Independence is framed as economic and personal autonomy, not a romanticized rebellion.

The subtext is also gendered, in a way that lands without preaching. For women in entertainment, especially in earlier decades, dependence can be packaged as protection: the manager, the studio, the partner, the gatekeeper who "helps". Abril’s sentence flips that script. Work isn’t just identity; it’s leverage. She’s telling you how she intended to survive the system - not by being chosen, but by choosing herself.