Javier Bardem Quotes
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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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
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There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.
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It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.
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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.
