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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Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.
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You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.
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If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
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You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
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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.
