Javier Bardem Quotes

• 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 was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It’s kind of a life-changing experience. But it can’t get better than this for any actor – this is like an opera.

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

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• I used to be a good party boy. I’m old. I’m an old man. You pay the consequences. I’m just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

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• I truly don’t have any formula for the choices I make.

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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 look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who’s trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

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• I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don’t watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

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• I have this problem with violence. I’ve only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It’s called Perdita Durango. It’s a Spanish movie. I’m very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

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• I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it’s boring.

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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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• I am always saying, ‘I don’t believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.’ And that’s true. If I ever get a phone call saying ‘Would you like to work with Al Pacino?’ I would go crazy.

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

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• Celebrity is very weird.

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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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• Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They’re to promote each other’s movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they’ll go to see them. It’s still the same.

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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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