Javier Bardem Quotes

• Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that’s not fair. How can you tell what’s best and what’s worst from these awards? We’re talking about art.

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• Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

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• When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: ‘How could I have done that?’ but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you’re 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: ‘Was I like that? Was I really like that?’

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• What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe’s? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

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• This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can’t be.

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• The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that’s it. When you’re not working, you don’t have an obligation to be public.

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• The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That’s the only principle meaning of any award.

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• Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don’t you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

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• Really, I don’t see this heart-throb thing at all.

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• Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it’s not like it’s a bible.

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• I’ve always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

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• I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that’s what counts.

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• I want to act because I don’t know how to do anything else.

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• I think we are living in selfish times. I’m the first one to say that I’m the most selfish. We live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

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• I don’t really care where movies come from as long as they’re worth making.

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• I don’t know how to drive a car.

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• I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

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• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there’s curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn’t speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn’t felt in a while. But I like it.

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• But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn’t a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

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• But don’t call me an actor. I’m just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don’t say that what I am doing is art.

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Javier Bardem (62)

Birth:	1st March, 1969
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Actor

About

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem was born in Las Palmas, Spain. He is a Spanish actor. His role in several films include: High Heels, Jamón, jamón, Boca a boca, Carne trémula, Second Skin, Before Night Falls (Won- Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor- Motion Picture Drama), Mondays in the Sun, The Sea Inside, Love in the Time of Cholera, No Country for Old Men (Won- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor- Motion Picture), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy), Biutiful (Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role), Eat Pray Love, Skyfall (Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), The Counselor, The Gunman, The Last Face, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Mother!. He has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, and five Goya Awards.

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