Cruz: "I've always been a worrier"

Penelope Cruz has admitted that she worries all the time.

The Vicky Cristina Barcelona actress, who is dating actor Javier Bardem, has said that she tries to keep busy so that she doesn't get anxious.

Cruz told 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?'"

The 35-year-old star also said that she learned her acting skills by watching women in the local beauty salon in her hometown of Alcobendas in Spain, saying: "It was my first acting school. I would pretend to be doing my homework, but I was really observing the women."

She continued: "I found their behaviour mesmerising - 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."