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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Age is so immaterial. Isn't this all just the blink of an eyelash?
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When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
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Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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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.
