Javier Bardem Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Acting's boring.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was at odds with the character of the people. We were the first country in the world to roll back the frontiers of socialism, then roll forward the frontiers of freedom. We reclaimed our heritage; we are renewing it and carrying it forward.
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If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
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We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
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Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
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I don't like to talk about my personal life.
